Alternative EarthCare has been providing quality
residential and commercial services across Long Island, New York since 1996.
Specializing in mosquito, flea, and hamptons tick control service,
traditional lawn services (including aeration and seeding), irrigation system
services, tree removal and pruning, and Christmas and holiday light
installation, the team of professionals successfully caters to your needs in
the least toxic, most organic way possible.
Around the
world, diseases spread by ticks are on the rise. Reported cases of Lyme, the
most common US tick-borne illness, have quadrupled since the 1990s. Other
life-threatening infections like anaplasmosis, babesiosis, and Rocky Mountain
spotted fever are increasing in incidence even more quickly than Lyme. Meat allergies caused by tick bites have
skyrocketed from a few dozen a decade ago to more than 5,000 in the US alone,
according to experts. And new tick-borne pathogens are emerging at a troubling clip; since 2004, seven
new viruses and bugs transmitted through tick bite have shown up in humans in
the US.
Scientists
don’t know exactly which combination of factors—shifting climate patterns,
human sprawl, deforestation—is leading to more ticks in more places. But
there’s no denying the recent population explosion, especially of the species
that carries Lyme disease: the black-legged tick. “Whole new communities are
being engulfed by this tick every year,” And that means more people getting
sick.
Public health departments are required to report back to the CDC
on Lyme and six other tick-borne infections. Those cases combined with
county-level surveys and some published academic studies make up the bulk of
what the agency knows about national tick distribution. But this data, patchy
and stuck in time, doesn’t do a lot to help public health officials on the
ground. “We’ve got national maps, but we don’t have detailed local information
about where the worst areas for ticks are located,” says Ben Beard, chief of
the CDC’s bacterial diseases branch in the division of vector-borne diseases.
“The reason for that is there has never been public funding to support
systematic tick surveillance efforts.”
This is why we have to be ever prevalent about spraying our
properties for ticks to protect our families against the rising number of
tick-borne illnesses that exist here on Long Island.
The following map shows how NY state is amongst the top tick
related diseases reported to the The CDC.
Here at Alternative Earthcare, we offer organic sprays and organic
treatments to combat these insects and eliminate the ticks on your property.
Call us at 631-940-9050
for a free property evaluation.
