TEST TICKS AND MOSQUITOS

Up and down the puppies' hair flea's and ticks jump everywhere

Tick Information

Ticks can pose a significant risk to your personal health, but they certainly don't have to. Follow the link below to learn more about protecting yourself from ticks and the diseases they cause. 

Keeping Yourself Safe from Ticks and Tick-Borne Illnesses

Tick Prevention Resources: 

• Tick testing for disease (tickreport.com)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention —Ticks
• Mass.gov Tickborne Diseases
• Mass.gov Lyme Disease Fact Sheet
• Mass.gov Tick Repellent Fact Sheet
• Permethrin Fact Sheet
• Mass.gov Powassan Virus Fact Sheet
• It’s Tick Season in Wayland: Keep Yourself Safe from Ticks and Tick-Borne Illnesses
• Initial Middlesex Tick Task Force Newspaper Article: Introducing the Task Force's Mission and Goals - This is a article with a dead link to a report. Could link directly to the report but that report is from 2013.
• Lyme Disease in Massachusetts: A Report Issued by the Special Commission 2013 
• TickEncounter Resource Center

Mosquito Information

Mosquito control is of the utmost concern to the Wayland Health Department. Please follow the link below to read this year's press release on how we are handling the situation, and what you can do to minimize the mosquito population on your own property.

An Important Reminder About Mosquitos - 6/21/21 

Mosquito Control Resources:

• Adult Mosquito Control Memo
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — Mosquito Control
• CDC — West Nile Virus
• East Middlesex Mosquito Control Project (EMMCP)
• EPA's Repellents: Protection against Mosquitoes, Ticks and Other Arthropods
• Massachusetts Arbovirus Surveillance and Response Plan - 2021
• Mass.gov Mosquito-borne Diseases