Times Union: Expert says NY bound to see increasing tick-borne disease in 2025

2025 is already turning out to be a banner year for ticks.

Arthur Gran, M.D., of Troy Infectious Disease, a practice of St. Peter’s Health Partners Medical Associates, shared insight into the current tick season during an interview with the Times Union.

From the report:

In the past two weeks, Dr. Arthur Gran, an infectious disease specialist based out of St. Peter’s Health Partners’ Troy Infectious Disease office, said he’s seen a “noticeable uptick in patients requiring acute care, including hospitalization for tick-related infections.”

Gran said diseases such as anaplasmosis and babesiosis, which are bacterial and parasitic infections, respectively, can come with flu-like symptoms, body aches and blood work abnormalities. However, severe complications and late treatment can result in respiratory distress and organ failure.

“This time of year, you have to be very suspicious for the tick diseases, because they’re out there and they’re very common,” said Gran.

So far in 2025, more than 31% of the ticks tested in New York were positive for at least one pathogen, according to the Upstate Tick Testing Laboratory.

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