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Environmental Health

Mosquitoes and Ticks

Your Community. Your Health Department.

Don’t let mosquitoes bug you this year! Wood County Health Department reminds you that mosquitoes will bite day and night so protect yourself with these tips:

  • Keep mosquitoes outside by shutting doors and covering windows with screens.
  • Use EPA approved insect repellents every time you’re outdoors.
  • Cover your skin with loose, light-colored long sleeve shirts and pants.
  • Mosquitoes lay their eggs in water, just a bottle cap of water is all they need, so drain, refresh or cover anything around your home that can hold water at least weekly.
  • Avoid being outside at dusk and dawn when mosquitoes are most active.

Vector Borne Diseases are those that require a mosquito, tick or other arthropod to transmit disease from animals to humans (e.g., Rocky Mountain spotted fever, St. Louis encephalitis, West Nile virus).  Wood County Health Department currently partners with Bowling Green State University, Department of Biological Sciences for mosquito surveillance.

All mosquitoes collected in Wood County are sent to the Ohio Department of Health for identification. Surveillance efforts are conducted statewide at various levels of both mosquitoes and of ticks.

Find out more at the Ohio Department of Health Zoonotic Disease

Tickborne Diseases in Ohio
Mosquito-borne Diseases in Ohio
Be Tick Smart
Fight the Bite
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Removing a tick: Step 1

Step 1

Using tweezers, grab the tick as close to your skin as possible.

Step 2

Gently pull the tick upward until it’s out of your skin. Do not twist or jerk the tick. If tick mouth parts remain in the skin, leave them alone. In most cases, they will fall out in a few days.

Tick disposal

Step 3

Dispose tick by putting it in rubbing alcohol, a sealed bag/container, wrapping it tightly in tape, or flushing it down the toilet.

Clean the area

Step 4

Clean the bite area and your hands with soap and water or rubbing alcohol. If you develop a fever or rash within a few weeks of a tick bite, contact your healthcare provider and mention when and where the bite occurred.

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How to remove a tick