How to protect yourself from high tick season

WNYC News | Jul 1, 2025

It’s tick season, and according to Fordham University’s tick index, the risk of being bitten by one of the parasitic arachnids in the New York region this summer is high. 

Tom Daniels is the director of Fordham’s Louis Calder Center in Westchester County. He’s spent 40 years studying ticks and works with the State Health Department. He talked with WNYC's Sean Carlson about what you can do to protect yourself this summer.

 

 

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