A female white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) whose ears are infested with ticks at Assateague Island National Seashore in Maryland.
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Tick season is getting worse. Can managing deer help?
Health officials and researchers hope that efforts to control deer populations, which serve as "party buses" for mating ticks, can reverse the tide of ticks and the illnesses they cause.
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