1 INTRODUCTION
On the 30thJanuary 2020, World Health Organization affirmed the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as a health crisis of global concern and on the 11th March 2020, as a pandemic (World Health Organization [WHO], 2020a, 2020b). The outbreak was initially detected in China, Wuhan, around December 2019 (WHO, 2020c; Huang et al., 2020). Currently, COVID-19 is a persisting pandemic, triggered by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (WHO, 2020d). Before we proceed, it is interesting to briefly review the current problem. As of 21st June 2020, more than 8,815,743 cases of SARS-CoV-2 have been conveyed in 188 different countries, ensuing 464,895 mortalities (COVID-19 Dashboard by Center for Systems Science and Engineering [CSSE], 2020). The pandemic has triggered worldwide social and economic disturbance, with the leading economic depression from the time when there was a Great Depression (International Monetary Fund [IMF] Blog, 2020). Moreover, misleading information about the virus has spread far and wide (Clamp, 2020); even some public members have raised direct questions about the possibilities of ticks to transmit the virus (Annapolis, 2020). These questions have not received a simple solution so far. The Entomological Society of America by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, have provided information that there is no evidence to support the fact that ticks can transmit SARS-CoV-2 (Entomological Society of America, 2020). A closer look at the literature reveals a few gaps and shortcomings. With that in mind, I raise more questions about the findings of Traavik and his colleagues, reported four decades ago, during the 1973-1980 period; can their work be considered to provide hints and hypothesis that can be tested to answer the above mentioned questions?