Ticks

Tick Wise Education and East End Tick & Mosquito have teamed up for a unique tick prevention hike to learn how to avoid being bitten by ticks.

Find out all the information you need to know about preventing tick bites and treating the diseases ticks can spread.

Southampton Hospital's Tick-Borne Disease Resource Center has arranged a series of programs covering education about and prevention of tick-borne diseases, the Alpha-gal meat allergy and a program aimed at teaching children about tick safety to be held at the Riverhead Public Library.

More cases of tick-borne diseases have been reported on the East End than almost anywhere else in Suffolk County in recent years.