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Article: The War On Ticks: Battling one of nature's most nefarious critters.(Health & Fitness)
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- Field & Stream (West ed.)
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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Byline: Jim Thornton
The Dutchess county, New York, whitetail looked magnificent in the distance, decidedly less so up close. As the hunter who killed it prepared to field dress the carcass, he noticed what appeared to be hundreds of black olives attached to its ears, head, neck, and shoulders. For each one of these things, he saw at least two smaller versions embedded in the deer's hide.
"My friend gave up counting the blacklegged ticks after he reached 1,000," recalls David Weld, director of the American Lyme Disease Foundation. Not that this deer was particularly unusual: Throughout the late summer and fall, says Weld, the average deer in the ...
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