Chikungunya virus loves warm New York winters

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5. Don't forget the ticks, fleas, leeches, and those big horseflies.

Although, with the horseflies, they don't suck blood. They bite hunks out of us more like the red imported fire ants and army ants and carpenter ants.

I'm surprised anyone is left alive in NC with all the biting, stinging, sucking things that prey on us here.

Out of all those though, only ticks, fleas and mosquitoes cause secondary diseases much of the time. Back when I worked as a dog groomer, my boss got Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Another person who worked there ended up with Lyme disease. I guess I was incredibly lucky to not catch anything, because that was half of those who worked there that got sick from the tick bites.