Episode
Tick season is getting worse. Can managing deer help?
- Podcast
- Morning Edition
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- Jun 19, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 212
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Summary
Ticks can cause serious diseases, but the tools for controlling them lag decades behind mosquitoes. In the northeast, health officials and researchers hope that efforts to control deer populations -- which serve as "party buses" for mating ticks -- along with new experimental approaches, can start to reverse the tide of ticks and the illnesses they cause.