New Study Shows Lyme Disease Can Be Found In City Parks

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Ticks and Lyme disease are known to lurk around rural and suburban areas.
Not much is known about ticks in urban settings.
“Nobody’s done work on insular parks that are surrounded by populated areas, right in the heart of cities,” said Tom Simmons, tick researcher at IUP.
Every year, more than 6 million people use Pittsburgh’s parks.
Researchers at IUP looked at the issue in a systematic way, dragging a 1-square-meter cloth on randomly determined