I bought a new product today at our pet store called Rid A Tick
www.rid-a-tick.com
Can be used on humans besides pets. It is adhesive disks that you apply over the tick, which smothers them and removes the tick/ versus using tweezers. The blood transfer is contained with encapsulation and then it can be taken to a doctor for analysis of the tick type or Lyme disease.
I got these for my mother in law who lives in a heavily wooded tick infested area and she has 2 dogs. I don't dare sit on her fabric covered furniture when I visit because the dogs bring in ticks and then lay on the furniture(I prefer the wood chairs). My sister in law got a tick in her back end after sitting on the sofa.
Linda