Dr Kirby Stafford: deer herd reduction and lyme disease

Renowned tick entymologist Dr Kirby Stafford explains the link between deer overpopulation and lyme disease. If you reduce the deer herd, you will decrease the likelihood of contracting lyme disease because by decreasing the number of deer, you are decreasing the primary host of the deer tick, which carries the disease bacteria.

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• deer
• overpopulation
• lyme
• disease
• CT
• deerxingfilm

[justinmaher11]

Dear Dr. Stafford,

Thanks for a concise explanation of a complex zoonotic phenomenon,

with involvement ranging from tiny arthropods, to small rodents, to large mammals - whose populations are bloated due to anthopogenic extinction of their predators - an animal-control intervention that has come back to literally bite us with pernicious public-health consequences.

I appreciate your public-awareness work and concise delivery of complex ecology;

Bravo, - Justin Maher, Bee-Inspector applicant

[ecftube]

Wrote a Lyme disease brochure with the help of 2 Lyme specialists. Will email to anyone interested. Elaine

[DjSpinWiggly]

Hey, it's britts dad!!!!! HI Kirby!!!!!! It's dan, ambers boyfriend!!!! Awesome theory.