How to Use deer tick in a Sentence

deer tick

noun

• The tick that causes the disease is the black-legged tick, aka the deer tick.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 15 Apr. 2023
• In terms of ticks, deer ticks are the biggest threat throughout the US.
  — Judy Stone, Forbes, 6 May 2023
• Of those, the deer tick is the one that often bites and infects humans.
  — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2023
• In the Northeast, the deer tick is best known as the carrier of Lyme disease.
  — New York Times, 26 Aug. 2021
• Climate change will also bring more deer ticks to St. Louis.
  — Allegra Kirkland, Quartz, 18 Oct. 2019
• The second most common tick is the lone star tick, also known as the seed tick, turkey tick or deer tick.
  — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 23 May 2018
• However, the lone star tick has a different shape than the dog tick and is much larger than the deer tick.
  — Kevin Ambrose, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2022
• The bacterium is present in deer ticks in the Northeast and Midwestern US.
  — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2023
• Also, the deer tick is quite tiny, a mere speck, and easily overlooked.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 8 June 2023
• It is most commonly carried by the black-legged or deer tick and can infest humans and pets.
  — Kaleb A. Brown, Detroit Free Press, 17 June 2020
• The report found that just shy of 39% of deer ticks tested positive for Lyme.
  — USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2020
• The reasoning for the cull was to prevent the spread of Lyme disease, which can be caused by bacteria in deer ticks.
  — Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 3 Jan. 2020
• Historically, deer ticks have lived to the east and south of Indiana and in the northern part of the state near Chicago.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 24 May 2018
• Powassan virus infection Three tick species carry the Powassan virus: the groundhog tick, the squirrel tick, and the deer tick.
  — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2023
• The coronavirus, like deer ticks (now found as far north as the Arctic), may prove to be one of many new invisible threats.
  — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 25 May 2020
• Anaplasmosis is transmitted by the deer tick and is most prevalent in the Northeast and the upper Midwest.
  — Patia Braithwaite, SELF, 26 July 2019
• Like Lyme, this illness is transmitted by deer ticks in warm months, according to the CDC.
  — Patia Braithwaite, SELF, 26 July 2019
• So researchers are testing photosensitive eyes that weigh less than 2 milligrams and are about the size of a deer tick.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2015
• For example, black-legged ticks, commonly called the deer tick, favor those warm and moist areas on the human body like under the breasts and arms.
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 16 July 2023
• That disease is the Powassan virus, which is transmitted by deer ticks just like Lyme disease.
  — Megan Friedman, Country Living, 2 May 2017
• If the state has had two cases by June, who knows how many more cases there will be as deer tick season continues through August.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 17 June 2021
• The May 10 count, led by Rutgers, did not focus on deer ticks, which are associated with Lyme disease and tend to be found in the woods.
  — Frank Kummer, Philly.com, 6 June 2018
• View full post on Instagram There are many different species of ticks, but the detail that matters is whether you were bitten by a deer tick (a.k.a.
  — Sarah Bradley, Women's Health, 26 May 2023
• This tiny tick was identified as the immature stage of the deer tick, called Ixodes scapularis, similar to Europe’s sheep tick.
  — Allen Steere, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• Prater begrudgingly saw an optometrist who broke the news — a deer tick had taken up residence in his cornea.
  — Scottie Andrew and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 16 July 2019
• These are different ticks from the transmitters of Lyme disease, which are deer ticks, also called black-legged ticks.
  — Anna Groves, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2018
• The virus usually is spread through the bite of an infected black-legged or deer tick, the same parasite that transmits Lyme disease.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, Hartford Courant, 5 May 2022
• Powassan virus disease is spread by three types of ticks, including the deer tick that transmits Lyme disease.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 25 July 2019
• But lacking anything better, a pamphlet about deer ticks can keep me occupied quite some while.
  — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
• Available in 2-ounce and 4-ounce spray bottles, this repellent advertises up to four hours of protection from deer ticks and up to eight hours for lone star ticks and brown dog ticks.
  — Steven Rowe, Health, 28 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Aug 2024