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A female white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) whose ears are infested with ticks at Assateague Island National Seashore in Maryland.
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Health officials and researchers hope that efforts to control deer populations, which serve as "party buses" for mating ticks, can reverse the tide of ticks and the illnesses they cause.
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