If you live in Monmouth County, NY you are eligible to get ticks lab tested. To help prevent Lyme disease the county is offering this program. If you contract a tick you should store it, then bring it into the The Mosquito Commission Office, 1901 Wayside Road, Tinton Falls. In Monmouth county there are mainly three different types of ticks. These include the deer tick (backlegged tick), the lone star tick and the American dog tick. The only one that carries the Lyme disease is the deer tick. If you get a tick tested they will call you and mail you a full report on what type of tick it was and if it had Lyme’s disease or not.

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