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Ticks are migrating, but scant surveillance may leave doctors in the dark on patient treatment
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TPR: The Public's Radio
Deer ticks are infamous for transmitting Lyme disease and can infect people with other pathogens.
(Aaron Bolton)Knowing a new species like the deer tick has arrived in Montana or other states is important for doctors.
For numerous local and state health departments, tick surveillance relies on a less expensive, more passive approach.
That means he’s unable to monitor emerging populations of deer ticks as closely as he would like.
Deer ticks are also called black-legged ticks.
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