Tick Prevention Week

Tick Prevention Week was started in April 2006. The board members of BADA-UK (Borreliosis & Associated Diseases Awareness) decided that the best way to focus their campaign to raise awareness about ticks and the diseases they can carry was to condense the campaign for one awareness week each year just before the spring holidays when people get out and about more.

Ticks are part of nature. They're irritating, they don't seem to serve any purpose (except to transport infectious organisms from one creature to the next) and they're not very pretty, but they do deserve some respect because they can sometimes make us sick.

Knowing what ticks are, where they are likely to be found, how to prevent them from biting us, and what to do if we are bitten will help to keep us safe.