Ticks are spreading Lyme disease across America, but we can beat them. Here’s how.

Ticks are one of humanity’s most dastardly adversaries: tiny, at times nigh-invisible arthropods that burrow into your skin, leech your blood, and sometimes transfer debilitating disease before they vanish, without you ever knowing they were there.

It can be only months or weeks later, when Lyme disease’s harrowing symptoms begin to take hold, that you […] ...