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No, mowing less often doesn’t mean more ticks. And there’s a way to get around those homeowner association rules. Read on.

Linda Colletta creates woven abstract paintings at her new studio space in Westport.

Results from the four-year Tick Project study in Dutchess County indicate that tick-control interventions reduce incidence of tick-borne disease in household pets, but do not reduce disease in humans. Felicia Keesing, David and Rosalie Rose Distinguished Professor of Science, Mathematics, and Computing, is the lead author on the study, published in the May issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Cases of Lyme disease in the Hudson Valley likely underreported Accurate estimates of Lyme disease can impact prevention programs Lukas Southard FacebookTwitterEmail Dr. Richard S. Ostfeld studies the ecology of Lyme and other tick-born diseases at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook. The CDC announced this winter that it has been underreporting cases of Lyme, but for Ostfeld, the most worrisome issue is the fact that we still cannot accurately quantify the magnitude of the pro...