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Article: Medical Entomologist.(Brief Article)
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- Careers & Colleges
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- September 1, 1999
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Studies insects that transmit disease.
On any given day, Melissa Miller must don white plastic-reinforced coveralls, a hood with an air filter, and two pairs of surgical gloves to go to work. Does she brave toxic waste dumps with this gear? No--just the woods.
Miller is a medical entomologist for the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine (CHPPM) in Fort Meade, Maryland. Part of her job is to wade into training fields and forests on military bases from Maine to North Carolina to collect ticks, other arthropods (segmented organisms like spiders and insects), and rodents that may be carrying dangerous bacteria. When infected ticks ...