{"id":9948,"date":"2025-07-23T11:02:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9948"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:02:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:02:47","slug":"why-are-tick-bites-sending-so-many-people-to-the-emergency-room-this-summer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/07\/23\/why-are-tick-bites-sending-so-many-people-to-the-emergency-room-this-summer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are tick bites sending so many people to the emergency room this summer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p id=\"anchor-5e5213\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/tick-bites-emergency-room-summer-symptoms-rcna219222\">NBC News<\/a> While working as a youth camp doctor in upstate New York earlier this summer, Dr. Matt Harris noticed he was removing a dozen ticks from campers each day, more than in years prior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"anchor-5e5213\">Harris, an emergency medicine doctor at Northwell Medicine, said summer camp isn\u2019t the only place seeing a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/tick-mosquito-season-summer-rcna91185\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"surge of tick bites, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">surge of tick bites<\/a>: He and other doctors have been seeing more people coming into the ER because of ticks. According to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ticks\/data-research\/facts-stats\/tick-bite-data-tracker.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>, this July has seen more ER visits for tick bites so far than the past eight Julys.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News While working as a youth camp doctor in upstate New York earlier this summer, Dr. Matt Harris noticed he was removing a dozen ticks from campers each day, more than in years prior. Harris, an emergency medicine doctor at Northwell Medicine, said summer camp isn\u2019t the only place seeing a&nbsp;surge of tick bites: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tick-bourne-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9949,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9948\/revisions\/9949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}