Guineafowl May Spread, Not Halt, Fever-Bearing Ticks in Turkey
Friday, November 30, 2012 - 00:00
in Health & Medicine
Turkey releases non-native guineafowl to eat ticks that carry deadly Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. Yet research suggests guineafowl eat few ticks, but carry the parasites on their feathers, possibly spreading the disease they were meant to stop, says a Turkish biologist working at the University of Utah.