BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Availability Heuristic, and Negativity Bias, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 61.8% saturation with 68 hits. Analysis detected 359 faulty-reasoning hits from 110 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 67% and a BS Rank of 75% (5,501 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 74.90% of the article peer group.
As ticks and tick-borne diseases rise across Canada due to warmer weather, experts are warning about two invasive species: the lone star and Asian longhorned ticks.
Entomologist Jade Savage, creator and director of the eTick monitoring platform, says authorities are closely tracking them.
In the meantime, she gives practical steps we can take to reduce the risk of tick bites.
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