{"id":216110,"date":"2026-04-30T23:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216110\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T23:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:55:11","slug":"new-york-issues-warning-on-lyme-disease-as-warm-weather-approaches-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216110\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Issues Warning on Lyme Disease as Warm Weather Approaches | Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Tick\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1662\" height=\"1247\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/64c9445225d43.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>AP<\/p>\n<p>ALBANY, N.Y. (WKTV) &#8212; Health and environmental officials are urging New Yorkers and visitors to protect themselves from ticks and tick-borne diseases as the weather gets warmer.<\/p>\n<p>The New York State Department of Health, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation shared that Lyme disease is a major concern, with symptoms like a bull&#8217;s-eye rash, fever, chills, muscle aches, headache or fatigue possibly showing up within 30 days of infection.<\/p>\n<p>Officials noted that tick bites can also spread other illnesses, including babesiosis, anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Powassan virus disease.<\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wktv.com\/news\/health\/tick-season-seems-to-be-off-to-a-fast-start-and-some-experts-worry-about\/article_1b9f514f-cb18-5fdc-92e8-ae39b07bd4b2.html\" class=\"tnt-asset-link\" aria-label=\"Tick Season Seems to Be Off to A Fast Start, and Some Experts Worry About Future Illnesses\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Tick Season Seems to Be Off to A Fast Start, and Some Experts Worry About Future Illnesses\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload ap-photo full blur\" width=\"1662\" height=\"1247\" data- data-\/><br \/>\n                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/64c9445225d43.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"tnt-summary\">Tick season seems to be off to a fast start, with an unusually high number of bites already reported across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP ALBANY, N.Y. (WKTV) &#8212; Health and environmental officials are urging New Yorkers and visitors to protect themselves&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[73152,9,11,10,49,51,50,85228],"class_list":["post-216110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-lyme-disease","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-tick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}