An additional 100,000 tick-bites estimated this year....

https://www.pressrepublican.com/news/local_news/ticks-getting-more-numerous-more-lethal/article_b65f9592-2fd1-5f77-81c1-ab293a7049a7.html

And more fun statistics which begs the question: Where did these come from???

About 400,000 new cases of Lyme disease are reported in the United States annually, and about a quarter of those are from New York.  

FYI: Holly Ahern was interviewed for this story.