Why Hunting Won’t Reduce Human Risk of Lyme Disease
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Contrary to what was said at the Environment Committee hearing on March 22nd, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) do not recommend hunting to control Lyme disease. If one scours the CDC web pages on Lyme disease, many recommendations are given about how to prevent Lyme disease, but there is no mention of hunting in the CDC web page text, nor any recommendation for hunting 1 . See http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/
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