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1 .This is Scientific American's 60-Second Health. I'm Katherine Harmon. Got a minute?
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2 .Ticks can really get under your skin. Literally.
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3 .And in many parts of the country they spread illness, including Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
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4 .Add to that list a new scourge: Heartland virus, which doesn't respond to treatment.
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5 .This infection was described for the first time last year after two Missouri men were hospitalized with fever and headaches.
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6 .No one was sure how the men contracted the disease.
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7 .Now a study in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene confirms that ticks were the transmitters.
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8 .Researchers tromped out to the two men's properties, and 10 more sites in the region, to set up tick traps.
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9 .These included containers of dry ice, which emit carbon dioxide to attract ticks, and flannel bedding, which traps them.
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10 .They also picked some ticks off of area dogs and horses.
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11 .All told, they collected more than 56,000 tick specimens.
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12 .And they found the virus residing in lone star ticks, the most common in the region.
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13 .About one in 500 of the arachnids carried the virus.
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14 .Enough to make me check for ticks. And then check again.
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15 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Health. I'm Katherine Harmon.
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