Tick-resistant clothing debilitates three different common species of tick, preventing them from biting humans and spreading disease, a CDC study found.
This summer is expected to be a particularly bad one for ticks, which can carry 14 diseases, including the nervous system condition, Lyme disease.
Since 2004, rates of tickborne illnesses have tripled in the US.
Tiny as they are, bites from ticks can be difficult to prevent, but the CDC's latest study on peremthrin-treated clothing shows that the chemically-enhanced clothes can immobilize the bugs.
According to its findings, buying some $30 tick-repellent pants just might keep you safe from Lyme disease this summer.
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It's permethrin, not whatever.
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