Tick Tactics: Effective Strategies to Keep Ticks Away

Expert-backed strategies to avoid tick bites this season—from repellents and clothing to essential oils and tick checks.
Tick Tactics: Effective Strategies to Keep Ticks Away
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Emma Suttie
Emma Suttie
D.Ac, AP
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“The tick that you don’t find is the most dangerous tick,” according to Angela Tucker, a medical entomology education specialist at the University of Tennessee.

As spring arrives and summer approaches, more time outside means exposure to ticks—the unwelcome guests we all want to avoid.

Emma Suttie
Emma Suttie
D.Ac, AP
Emma is an acupuncture physician and has written extensively about health for multiple publications over the past decade. She is now a health reporter for The Epoch Times, covering Eastern medicine, nutrition, trauma, and lifestyle medicine.