如何保护自己免受蜱虫的威胁？

As the temps climb and many people head outdoors, particularly when walking through woods, underbrush, tall grasses or weeds, the chance of picking up an unwelcome hanger-on rises.

随着气温的升高，许多人会前往户外，尤其是在穿过树林、灌木丛、高草或杂草时，捡起一个不受欢迎的“马屁虫”的几率会上升。

Warmer months can get buggy. But one threat isn't a bug at all, but an arachnid (and not a spider in this case, either). Ticks can be more than an annoyance; they may transmit disease when they bite into human skin, and hold fast. And that threat is growing.

温暖的月份可能会出问题。但威胁根本不是虫子，而是蛛形纲动物(在本例中也不是蜘蛛)。蜱虫不仅仅是一种烦恼;当它们紧紧抓人的皮肤并咬一口时，就会传播疾病。而这种威胁正在加剧。

According to a report released in May by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, disease cases from mosquito, flea and tick bites in the U.S. tripled from 2004 to 2016. That coincides with a significant increase in the known range of species like the blacklegged tick, which – when infected with the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi or Borrelia mayonii – can transmit Lyme disease.

美国疾病控制与预防中心今年5月发布的一份报告显示，2004年至2016年，美国蚊子、跳蚤和蜱虫叮咬的病例增加了两倍。与此同时，黑脚蜱等已知物种的数量也在显著增加。当黑脚蜱感染了burgdorferi或Borrelia mayonii细菌后，可以传播莱姆病。

Preventing Bites From Tick

防止被蜱虫叮咬

First, it's important to assess the risk. Not only might you encounter ticks on a hike, but experts say increasingly that yards are in tick-prone regions; in such places, particularly where there's suitable habitat like woods or tall grasses, ticks can also pose a threat.

首先，评估风险很重要。你不仅可能在徒步旅行中遇到蜱虫，而且专家们越来越多地表示，院子里的蜱虫很容易滋生;在这些地方，特别是在有合适栖息地的地方，如树林或高草，蜱虫也会造成威胁。

Repel ticks. If you're going to be spending time in an area that's likely to have ticks, experts say it's important to take precautions to keep ticks off your skin. "Treat your clothing and gear with products that contain permethrin," Eisen says.

击退蜱虫。专家说，如果你要在可能有蜱虫的地方待上一段时间，采取预防措施防止蜱虫进入皮肤是很重要的。“用含有氯菊酯的产品来处理你的衣服和装备，”Eisen说。

Keep ticks out of your backyard. Tick-tracking efforts led by Mather and other researchers have found that treating backyards for ticks is also highly effective to keep ticks out. "In a lot of people's yards, increasingly, they're finding that they live where ticks do. You can hire someone to come in and spray an effective tick-killing product, and it reduces the number of ticks. In my own yard, I've done it since I've lived there [beginning] in 1999."

让蜱虫远离你的后院。马瑟和其他研究人员领导的跟踪蜱虫的研究发现，治疗后院的蜱虫也能有效地将蜱虫拒之门外。“在很多人的院子里，越来越多的人发现他们生活在蜱虫生活的地方。“你可以雇人来喷洒一种有效的杀蜱产品，这样可以减少蜱虫的数量。在我自己的院子里，我从1999年(开始)住在那里以来就一直这样做。”

Check for ticks. "Look in the crevices of your body, which is where ticks like to hide … so behind your ears, in the armpits, around the groin, ankles, behind your knee – those are places where ticks like to go to," Lyons says. Also, make sure to check kids and pets, and remove ticks right away.

检查蜱虫。里昂说:“看看你身体的缝隙，那里是蜱虫喜欢藏身的地方……所以在你的耳朵后面，腋窝，腹股沟周围，脚踝，膝盖后面——这些地方都是蜱虫喜欢藏身的地方。”此外，一定要检查孩子和宠物，并立即清除蜱虫。