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| Decrease in foxes = increase in lymes disease.; US study. | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: 18th June 2012 - 08:30 PM (32 Views) | |
| Nige | 18th June 2012 - 08:30 PM Post #1 |
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http://m.phys.org/news/2012-06-lyme-disease-mirrors-red-fox.html Although it's a US study, and we don't have coyotes here, it may be a bit of a heads up for those places where foxes are becoming 'scarce'. |
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| photopro | 18th June 2012 - 10:25 PM Post #2 |
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A reduction in foxes will not result in an increase in ticks. |
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| Nige | 19th June 2012 - 10:28 AM Post #3 |
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There doesn't need to be an increase in the number of ticks, only an increase in the number of ticks carrying the disease. One infected tick will infe t more than one host, and every tick that then feeds on that host, will then infect the next animal it feeds off. |
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