Increasing your knowledge about ticks and tick encounters will make you better prepared to protect yourself and others.
Tick Borne Disease. It's Preventable... So DON'T Let It Happen To YOU!
Have you or someone you know had a horrible experience with tick-borne disease?
Do you think your story would inspire other people to take preventive action? You can submit your story idea to TERC for consideration via email. If it inspires us, we may contact you for an interview.Patient Profiles
Do you know someone whose life has been drastically changed by tick-borne disease? We'd like to hear about it.
Harvey C. Perry II
He was so miserable he told his doctors he would not take any more medicines orally. “I said I didn’t care if I died. I hit a wall.”
Buck Roy Benoist
"He always checked himself and wore white socks," in order to spot any ticks. "I checked him too," she adds. "He would go out in the yard and get tired from nothing,"
Rudi Hempe
"I stood there in the corridor holding my magnetic employee card and suddenly I didn't know where I was."
Bill Thornton
"I was so sick, I asked God to take me."
Kate Moran
Her knee swelled up, she had some memory problems, "I just wasn't myself."
Brian Follett
"One night I realized I could not see my dinner on a plate so well. It was like hitting a brick wall. It all came very fast, like a storm."
Are you concerned about the serious health threat caused by ticks?
Would you like to make appropriate tick-borne diseases prevention programming more widely available? If you answered yes to these questions, please consider supporting the Tick Encounter Resource Center at the University of Rhode Island. Proceeds help support tick-bite prevention programs.