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Bergen County's First Longhorned Tick Found On Emerson Golf Course Bergen County's First Longhorned Tick Found On Emerson Golf Course
Bergen County's First Longhorned Tick Found On Emerson Golf Course A child in Bergen County is the first person in the U.S. to have been found carrying an exotic tick species discovered by researches last fall, scientists announced Tuesday. The child carrying the Longhorned Tick was not bitten and tests by a private lab revealed no pathogens in that tick, according to the Rutgers Center for Vector Biology at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. It was not known where the child was from. Bergen County's first Longhorned Tick spotting was at Soldier Hill Golf Course in Emerson earlier this summer, making Bergen County the fifth in the state to contain the tick,…

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by Cecilia Levine