Lyme Disease: Northern ticks environment better for survival, transmission

Howard Ginsberg, PhD, Professor with the Department of Plant Sciences and Entomology at University of Rhode Island joined me to talk about a USGS-led study looking at the differences in geographical distribution of Lyme disease. The study, published in the journal PLoS One suggests that under environmentally-realistic conditions, southern environments exert greater mortality pressure on ticks than is ["]

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