Tick-borne diseases are booming – but we have new ways to fight them
Ticks carry more zoonotic pathogens than any other known vector Sergey Aleshin/Getty Images Tucked away in a ground-floor lab in Richmond, Virginia, is a bank of industrial freezers containing thousands of transparent, thumb-sized plastic tubes. Each is filled with a clear, yellowish fluid – blood serum taken from opossums, raccoons, black bears, coyotes, vultures and…
