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Nature.com : Scientists have no shortage of ideas about how to stop tick-borne illnesses. What is holding them back?

Aug. 25th, 2015 Melinda Wenner Moyer   The growing global battle against blood-sucking ticks   On a balmy day in late June, Scott Williams waits for a white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) to fall asleep. Williams, a wildlife biologist with the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven, has just transferred the animal from a trap to…