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Tick-borne disease ecology [Video]


Rick Ostfeld explains the ecology of Lyme disease. Discover how acorns and white-footed mice amplify disease risk, why predators like foxes make good neighbors, and the impact climate change and forest fragmentation have on the spread of tick-borne disease. 

Produced by Harvard University's Center for the Environment as a resource for the Planetary Health Alliance.

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