Increasing your knowledge about ticks and tick encounters will make you better prepared to protect yourself and others.
How to Remove a Tick
Step 1: Pointy Tweezers || Step 2: Location || Step 3: Direction and Speed || Step 4: Consider Testing
Step 4 : Consider Testing
Once you have the tick removed, you should consider send the tick to a lab for testing of tick-borne disease. Not all ticks transmit disease, so check out the tick identification chart to find out which ones do.
Tick Testing Facilities
How NOT to Remove a Tick
Our testing staff at TickEncounter have tried more than a dozen reportedly foolproof methods for tick removal. The most suggested method we hear is to burn the tick off with a match or cigarette. Learn why this is incorrect!
How to Remove a Tick Video
Watch a short animated sequence to see where to grab the tick for a clean tick removal.
