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Posted Thu Mar 24 2011: from London Daily Mail:
The European invader that's after your blood: Ticks from continent discovered in UK http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1301007595
 A breed of blood-sucking tick normally found on the continent has been discovered in Britain for the first time. Scientists say that climate change has brought the parasite to the UK - and warned that it may have brought with it new strains of disease from Europe. The researchers, from the University of Bristol, also found that the number of pet dogs infested with ticks was far higher than previously thought. This increases the risk thatdiseases carried by the foreign tick - Dermacentor reticulatus - will spread quickly to people and animals in this country, they cautioned.
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'Doc Michael says:
Foreign ticks... work harder than domestic ones!

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