[at-l] Lyme Disease followup

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FYI:

Associated Press, July 27, 1997

"Maryland among 5 states in Lyme disease program.

Lyme, Conn. -- The Lyme area has been chosen to participate in a federal
program that aims to kill deer ticks and reduce outbreaks of the disease
named after this shoreline town.

The program of the U.S., Department of Agriculture is expeced to run for five
years.

Its estimated cost will be $400,000 annually. Other states participating in
the USDA program are Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island.

Scheduled to begin next month, the program will provide 25 specially designed
feeding stations in the Lyme area that require deer to stick their heads
through narrow openings to get at a bin of corn.

As the deer stick their heads in, paint rollers on either side will brush
tick poison on their necks. As the deer groom themselves, they will spread
the poison to other deer.

The stations will be stocked with corn in the fall and winter, when the corn
will be a rare treat the animals will be unlikely to pass up, and when the
ticks try to find winter hosts.

Ticks have a two-year life cycle; therefore, it willtake two years to
determine whether the program is successful.

The ticks carry bacteria that cause Lyme disease, which can damage the heart
and nervous system.

The disease, whose first signs are flulike symptoms, can be treated with
antibiotics."

The Big E


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