OTTAWA – The LaSalle County Health Department is recruiting participants in an tick collection initiative. The Illinois Tick Inventory Collaboration Network program engages citizens in helping to gather data on ticks using collection kits. The department encourages anyone whose work or hobbies take them outdoors on a regular basis to sign up for a free I-TICK instruction kit. Participants will collect ticks found on themselves, pets or livestock, and record the location and date of collection. The timespan for collection will be any five days over a two-week period from now through December. Participants will return the completed kits to LaSalle County Health Department to be forwarded to the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana for analysis.
Individuals who would like to participate in this I-TICK data collection program should pick up an I-TICK collection kit at the LaSalle County Health Department. For additional information on the I-TICK program, call 814-433-3366 or email environmentalhealth@lasallecounty.org.
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