Mike Pearson takes a look at the Asian Longhorn tick and the impact the organism could have on the United States.
For the past 6 years, the Asian Longhorn tick has spreading across the eastern USA.
It has been deemed a dangerous tick simply because of how fast it can reproduce.
Some entomology researchers at Ohio State University went to a farm where a farmer found three head of his cattle covered in ticks.
There were able to reproduce fast and overwhelm the livestock.
There were no diseases found but the shear number killed the cattle.
Researchers put down a tarp and counted over 9,287 ticks in…
