If you encounter a lot of adult ticks this fall, it’s because the tiny critters have emerged as part of their regular life cycle and begun the mating season, an expert said.

Martin Reynolds loves to walk the city’s Shelton Lakes Recreation Path, so much so that when his business relocated him to the area, he focused his apartment hunt on Shelton to be close to the popular trail.

During his closing remarks at the 2008 Scientific Meeting hosted by the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society , Dr.

Cindy Barton wasn’t sure what the symptoms meant. She was 46 and healthy, and working as an occupational therapist when, seemingly out of nowhere, she began feeling fevers and chills.