Pests -- United States
The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is announcing that 2 exotic species of Asian and Eurasian ticks have been detected for the 1st time on Block Island. The ticks were discovered by Dr Danielle M Tufts, then an associate research scientist at Columbia University, as part of a research program conducted by Dr Maria Diuk-Wasser's research group on Block Island since 2010. It was confirmed by DNA and morphological characteristics that they are ticks not previously found
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?7829827&promed&0
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