It’s a summertime issue that’s as small as a sesame seed, but leaves its wounded with big problems if not discovered early on. A bite from the deer tick — becoming extra common on Staten Island as more deer call it home — can cause Lyme disease, a typically treatable and preventable ailment.
The city Health Department reports hundreds of New Yorkers are impure with tick-borne diseases each year, with Lyme being the most common. Ticks composed from Clay Pit Ponds State Park in Charleston recently tested positive for the bacterium so as to causes the disease. It’s also common for residents to become infected even as traveling to endemic areas such as the Hudson Valley, Long Island, New Jersey and Connecticut.
About four years back, Eric Brown, a 12-year-old who lives a stone’s fling from Clay Pit Ponds, began having bad headaches, followed by flu-like symptoms as well as ear aches, dizziness and stiff neck, as well as lower back and leg pain.
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