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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.

Common measures to kill the harmful pests appear to protect pets more than people, researchers say.

Animal migrations are among nature’s most stirring spectacles. So why do so few of us know about spectacular migrations that happen every spring, right in our own back yards? Because these are migrations of fish, out of sight beneath the surfaces of our rivers and streams.

When it was confirmed that animals from white-tailed deer to red foxes could contract and spread COVID-19, it dealt a huge blow to hopes that the disease could eventually be eradicated. For Barbara Han, it came as no surprise.

When a clutch of local officials and dignitaries gathered in late 2019 to celebrate the...