{"id":306447,"date":"2026-07-27T12:17:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T12:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/306447\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T12:17:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T12:17:21","slug":"people-are-mailing-bloodthirsty-ticks-to-a-new-york-lab-yale-climate-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/306447\/","title":{"rendered":"People are mailing bloodthirsty ticks to a New York lab \u00bb Yale Climate Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Transcript:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the summer, <a href=\"https:\/\/nyticks.org\/how-to-send-ticks\/ \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stacks of envelopes<\/a> arrive at a lab in upstate New York. Inside are ticks that people pulled off their bodies after spending time outside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thangamani: \u201cAnd then we tell them what tick species it was, what life cycle stage it was, and what pathogen it carries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thangamani-lab.com\/lab-members\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saravanan Thangamani<\/a> runs the Upstate Tick Testing Laboratory at SUNY Upstate Medical University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He says tick populations are expanding in many parts of the Northeast, largely because of climate change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As temperatures warm, ticks can survive in some areas that were once too cold for them and stay active longer in the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Climate change is also shifting the geographic range of some of the animals that ticks feed on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thangamani: \u201cWhen this wildlife moves to a different geographic area, the ticks are carried along with them as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since 2019, his team has tested more than 30,000 ticks, mostly from New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They found that about a third carried one or more pathogens \u2013 like the bacteria that cause Lyme disease, the virus that causes tick-borne encephalitis, or the parasite that causes babesiosis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So the lab gives people information they can share with their doctor, and it also gives scientists data to track the changing risks as the climate warms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reporting credit: Sarah Kennedy \/ ChavoBart Digital Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Transcript: During the summer, stacks of envelopes arrive at a lab in upstate New York. Inside are ticks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,901],"class_list":["post-306447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306447","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=306447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}