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Alaska Submit-A-Tick Program

In 2019, the Alaska Office of the Land Veterinary, in collaboration with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the University of Alaska, began the Alaska Submit-A-Tick Program. Through this programme, individuals who notice ticks on themselves, their family unit members, pets, or wild fauna (e.g. hunted or trapped animals) can submit ticks for species identification and pathogen testing. Veterinarians, biologists, and other Alaskans who handle domestic animals and wildlife in the state are important resources for the monitoring program, and we welcome you to submit ticks.

Researchers are asking Alaskans to submit ticks to help make up one's mind which tick species are currently in the state. Tick submissions volition as well assistance united states of america learn more well-nigh how ticks are beingness imported into Alaska and so that we can create effective strategies to limit their introduction. Ticks can transmit bacteria, parasites, and viruses that tin cause diseases in humans and wildlife. Pathogen testing allows usa to assess tickborne affliction risk in the state.

Which ticks accept been found in Alaska?

The results of our tick surveillance program are now available. We periodically update these results as we receive ticks and so check dorsum for the latest information!

Submit-A-Tick!

It is just through the help and participation of people like you that this surveillance endeavor will be successful.

If you are interested in submitting a tick that y'all accept found, follow the steps below.

Advisedly remove the tick if it is fastened and feeding.
Put the tick into a clean, small plastic or metal container (due east.m. vial or small pill bottle). Multiple ticks from the same person or animal may be placed into ane container. If ticks are collected from more one person or animal, please use separate containers.
Place the container into a Ziploc pocketbook.
Print and complete an Alaska Submit-A-Tick grade. If ticks are collected from more than 1 person or animal, a separate submission course should be completed for each person or animal and placed in a carve up Ziploc bag with the appropriate container of ticks.
Identify the sealed Ziploc bag(s) with ticks and submission form(due south) in an envelope or pocket-sized box and ship to:

Office of the State Veterinary
5251 Dr. Martin Luther Rex Jr. Artery
Anchorage, AK 99507

Data for Veterinarians

Veterinarians are an integral office of monitoring for non-native ticks in Alaska. If people bring their ticks to y'all, please help them fill out the Alaska Submit-A-Tick form and include their contact information so that we can go far touch with questions about the tick if necessary. You lot tin can too check out the Tick Outreach Materials page to discover educational materials that you can hang in your clinic or paw out to clients.

If yous have any questions, delight contact the Role of the State Veterinarian or the project team at alaskaticks@alaska.edu.

Information for Wild animals Biologists

Wildlife biologists are also an of import component of tick monitoring in our state. Biologists interact with wildlife more oft, and more than closely, than most Alaskans.

Heading out for fieldwork? You tin download the Tick Collection Guide for Small and Large Mammal Biologists (PDF two.6M) or the Tick Drove Guide for Ornithologists (PDF 2.3M) as a handy resource to add to your field kit. These documents include several photos of ticks on wildlife, provide tips for conducting tick searches on wildlife, and contain detailed instructions for how to submit ticks to the Alaska Submit-A-Tick Plan for identification.

If you lot are interested in integrating tick checks into your research program or would similar to order tick field kits to collect ticks from wildlife, please make it contact with our University of Alaska partner, Dr. Micah Hahn.