Pathogen-carrying neotropical ticks ride migratory birds into US

Saturday, October 3, 2015 - 15:00 in Biology & Nature

Tick species not normally present in the United States are arriving here on migratory birds. Some of these ticks carry disease-causing Ricksettia species, and some of those species are exotic to the US.

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