Michigan is relatively spared so far.......
It all started in the shower. Tucker Lane looked down, and there they were.
"Two ticks, on my right hip, directly next to each other," he says.
At the time, Lane didn't think much about it. He grew up on Cape Cod. Ticks are everywhere there in the summer. "Just another tick bite. Not a big deal," he thought.
That was June. In September, everything changed.
The world is in a new age of infectious diseases.
Over the past 60 years, the number of new diseases cropping up per decade has almost quadrupled. The number of disease outbreaks each year has more than tripled since 1980.
The U.S. is no exception.
The country is a hot spot for tick-borne diseases. In the past 50 years, scientists have detected at least a dozen new diseases transmitted by ticks.