“Farm and Dairy” reported today, August 13, 2009, the following information on how some Northeastern states are deciding to fight the spread of Lyme.
A device called the “4-poster” Deer Treatment Bait Station,” developed and patented by scientists with the Agricultural Research Service, was highly effective at reducing the number of ticks infected with the Lyme disease bacterium in a six-year USDA study in five Northeastern states – Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island – where the disease is endemic. (more…)
