The weather may be getting colder but a little bug could still be hanging around.
Deer ticks tend to hang on to deer for winter, can survive the cold and could carry lyme disease. That could be an area for concern in Quispamsis, where there are plenty of deer in the area.
Quispam Council will be meeting with the Kennebecasis Valley Regional Deer Committee on November 13th to look into doing a tick drag. The drag involves pulling a white sheet over a piece of ground to collect ticks to study in a lab to see if they’re infected. A women named Anne Downey wrote a letter to council requesting they look into it.
Mayor Murray Driscoll tells CHSJ news deer ticks have never been a big problem in Quispam, but would like to make sure it never will be considering the amount of deer in the area.
