One of my nearest neighbor's kids got it here. He had the classic "ring" around the bite and the tick was fairly well gorged and swollen when they pulled it off

One of my nearest neighbor's kids got it here. He had the classic "ring" around the bite and the tick was fairly well gorged and swollen when they pulled it off. So it's here. But that family moved here from Indiana so they didn't grow up with the tradition of daily tick checks like folks living in rural areas here do. But, damn, that map showing the incidents in the eastern States is sure impressive. It would be interesting to study the tradition of "tick checks" here and there to get an idea of how that might affect those numbers.