Tick towns: Researchers target neighborhoods in Lyme effort


This undated photo provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a blacklegged tick - also known as a deer tick. With a bumper crop of blacklegged ticks possible this season, researchers in a Lyme disease-plagued part of New York's Hudson Valley are tackling tick problems across entire neighborhoods with fungal sprays and bait boxes.



from Biotech News