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"The good thing is, we don't seem to have established populations of these in Minnesota yet," said Schiffman. "We've even gone out to places you know, where somebody reports a tick, and we go and look to see if we can find any others. And we usually don't, so we think they're probably kind of maybe coming in on a bird and just having to drop off at the right time or some other you know, migrating animal or something."

Schiffman estimates that because of climate change, this migration will keep on happening. 

People who get bit are encouraged to remove the tick as soon as possible using tweezers. 

"So step one, remove the tick from you or your pet. Step two, is kind of the harder one for people because it's really to just watch and wait. There's not a need necessarily to rush to the doctor or anything like that," she said.