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  - WN.COM - Environment - 14/Jul 18:08

The midcoast is Maine’s new tick ‘epicenter’

It’s not your imagination — the midcoast has become Maine’s tick hot spot, according to new research from the University of Maine. The study, published in the Journal of Maine Medical Center by UMaine’s Cooperative Extension’s Tick Lab, named Waldo, Knox, Hancock and Lincoln counties as the most active in the state for ticks. Notably, those same midcoast counties also had the greatest incidence rates of Lyme disease, anaplasmosis and babesiosis — the most common tick-borne illnesses in Maine. Dr. Cheryl Leichty, who for 20 years has been a consultative physician on infectious diseases for MaineHealth Pen Bay Medical Hospital, said that she’s seen...

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