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Deer ticks are everywhere in the east (3+ / 0-)

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Deer populations are up in the suburbs and deer ticks are too. They harbor lyme disease.

"It's the planet, stupid."

by FishOutofWater on Wed Aug 08, 2007 at 06:31:02 PM PDT

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- deer are only part of the problem (5+ / 0-)
  
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  roonie, hopesprings, churchylafemme, Prison4Bushco, Rogneid
  
  Deer can carry the ticks long distances, but mice and birds harbor the spirochete (and several other pathogens) and transmit it to the tick larva.
  
  Ticks suck!
  
  by 42 on Wed Aug 08, 2007 at 06:36:08 PM PDT
  
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  - Maybe this will be Mother Nature's Revenge... (2+ / 0-)
    
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    42, dotcommodity
    
    ...the animal kingdom will kill us off, and not the other way around...
    
    "There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS." - Gandhi
    
    by hopesprings on Wed Aug 08, 2007 at 08:38:30 PM PDT
    
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