Scientists Tackle Connecticut’s Tick Problem

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It’s tick season. Here’s how one state is taking another look at the tiny pests, which infect thousands with Lyme disease each year.

April 25, 2019 11:00 a.m. ETWith funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, researchers at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station are for the first time actively collecting ticks statewide to test for organisms that cause human diseases, including Lyme disease.

 

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Hopefully we can find a new defense against ticks. Permethrin, once very effective, is now showing resistance, and cases are going up

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