Here in Maine, we now have a big problem with ticks with lyme disease, whereas when I was little I lived in the woods and was never once bitten by a tick. But

Here in Maine, we now have a big problem with ticks with lyme disease, whereas when I was little I lived in the woods and was never once bitten by a tick. But now they're everywhere. The winters are becoming milder, the deer population is growing, and the ticks are surviving the cold better, and it all combines to create a situation where the tick population is growing fast.