Guineafowl may spread, not halt, fever-bearing ticks in turkey
Friday, November 30, 2012 - 13:01
in Health & Medicine
The country 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.