This Was Then: The tick scientists - The Martha's Vineyard Times
In the early 1940s, decades before Lyme disease was discovered, there was the USDA Ticks Affecting Man field laboratory in Vineyard Haven. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, established by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, oversees everything from food safety to the Forest Service. Among their many bureaus was once the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, […]
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