Pest Organisms / Brown Dog Tick
Risks
for Brown Dog Tick
For dogs this is a serious threat: when it feeds it transmits the agents of canine ehrlichiosis and canine babesiosis [UF/IFAS; University of Maine]. Source: https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN378 Source: https://extension.umaine.edu/ticks/maine-ticks/brown-dog-tick-or-kennel-tick/ For people the main concern is Rocky Mountain spotted fever. The brown dog tick is recognized as one of the ticks that pass this illness to humans, a link confirmed by both the CDC and university tick researchers [CDC; University of Wisconsin]. Source: https://www.cdc.gov/rocky-mountain-spotted-fever/hcp/clinical-overview/index.html Source: https://wisconsin-ticks.russell.wisc.edu/rhipicephalus-sangineus/ The disease comes from a bacterium, Rickettsia rickettsii, and in parts of Arizona and northern Mexico it strikes harder than elsewhere, with high incidence and death rates that fall most heavily on children. Source: https://www.cdc.gov/rocky-mountain-spotted-fever/hcp/clinical-overview/index.html University tick researchers tie it to a documented Arizona cluster on tribal lands that logged more than 300 cases and 20 deaths between 2002 and 2011. Source: https://wisconsin-ticks.russell.wisc.edu/rhipicephalus-sangineus/