Wild Birds and Urban Ecology of Ticks and Tick-borne Pathogens, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2005–2010
No longer do you have to visit rural areas to find ticks; birds are flying them directly to you. When researchers sampled several thousand birds in Chicago, they found that some carried ticks and that some of these ticks carried the organism that spreads Lyme disease. Although the number of infected...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2012
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3471635/ |