Italian woman sues after attack by tics on ferry

Aboard a La Tirrenia ferry this week, Christina Sassudelli awoke to a rather unpleasant surprise: her first class-cabin had been infested with ticks. She awoke in the middle of the night during a trip from Genoa to the port of Olbia on Italian island Sardinia to find herself covered in the parasites. She quickly alerted the ferry staff, who provided her with fresh clothes, and upon landing at the port, escorted her to buy new clothes.

However, Sassudelli is furious that her ticket was not re-imbursed, adn is now suing the ferry company so that no one else would suffer the same "nightmare."

"I have always had dogs and I saw immediately that these weren't any kind of insect. There were hundreds of them," she said.

In response to the lawsuit, the a spokesperson for the company said this:

"This episode happened at a period of heavy traffic and hot, humid conditions. It is the first time, after many years of navigation, that it has happened."