New Device Is Highly Effective At Controlling Ticks That Spread Lyme Disease

Sunday, August 30, 2009 - 10:28 in Health & Medicine

A device called the "4-poster" Deer Treatment Bait Station was highly effective at reducing the number of ticks infected with the Lyme disease bacterium in a six-year study in five Northeastern states --- Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island --- where the disease is endemic.

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