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A spokeswoman said: "A widening of the period when ticks are active means there is a widening of the period when tick-borne diseases can be contracted."

In that way, Tidwell's discovery could lead to similar control methods for other tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease in humans.

"Probably when I was about 14 or 15, I got a tick-borne illness... and that's when my symptoms started," she recalled.

In the case of tick-borne diseases, for example, Beard noted that the geographic ranges have already expanded in recent years for ticks that spread Lyme, anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis and spotted fever rickettsiosis.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, in collaboration with JLP Health and others, have identified how the tick-borne Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus enters our cells.