Invasive tick infection spreading in US due to warming temperatures

(NewsNation) — The warming temperatures across the country have alerted scientists to an invasive tick infection that can cause debilitating symptoms and even death.

Scientists at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station told NBC News earlier this spring they found that the longhorned tick was a carrier for the bacterium that causes the Ehrlichiosis infection. The species, since then, has been detected in nearly two dozen states.

“I am afraid to say that it is a storm brewing,” said Dr. Goudarz Molaei, director of the CAES Tick Testing Program for Lyme and Allied Diseases.

“Climate change eventually will almost eliminate winter in our region. And this tick, like other tick species, will be active year-round.”

Because of the warm conditions, longhorned tick and other tick species