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Ticks and mosquitoes bringing more diseases – what can we do?

  • Written by Joyce Sakamoto, Assistant Research Professor of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University
A female deer tick on a piece of straw. Steve Ellingson/Shutterstock.com

Cases of vector-borne disease have more than doubled in the U.S. since 2004, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported, with mosquitoes and ticks bearing most of the blame.

Mosquitoes, long spreaders of malaria and yellow fever, have more recently spread...

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