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Gulf Coast Ticks Invade Virginia

By Carey, WRC-TV, NBCWashington.com, Washington, D.C.

May 9, 2011

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Gulf-Coast-Ticks-Invade-Virginia-121533569.html

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A new infestation is causing concern at the Fairfax County,

Va., Health Department.

Ticks normally found in Gulf Coast states have been

discovered in a landfill off Interstate 66 in the Fair Oaks

area. Because the ticks can carry disease, the health

department is pressing hard to contain them.

....

Officials dragged sailcloth and adhesive sheets over the

landfill, which was closed in 1982 and is now covered with

trees and grass, to collect more ticks, and they found a lot

from the Gulf Coast, 42 percent of which carried the

bacterium ricsettia parkeri, which can cause a type of Rocky

Mountain spotted fever disease. The Gulf Coast ticks do not

carry Lyme disease.

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