Health
Study finds ticks choose humans over dogs when temperature rises – The Guardian
Experiment put a human in one box, a dog in another and saw which the ticks preferred
Confining a young researcher in one box and a dog in another and unleashing blood-sucking ticks to scamper between the boxes sounds like a stunt from Im A Celebrity.
But the stomach-churning scientific experiment has revealed that ticks carrying the deadly Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) disease are more than twice as likely to shift their feeding preference from dogs to humans when temperatures rise.
The study, presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and…
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