Could Reducing Deer Populations Reduce Lyme Disease?

Lyme disease has been a growing problem in the United States, with the number of cases increasing throughout the past few decades.

The disease primarily is spread through a bacterium vectored by the tick Ixodes scapularis, also known as the Blacklegged “Deer” tick. The increasing spread of Lyme disease could be due to a variety of factors, such as suburbanization, reforestation or forest fragmentation, and changes to human behavior, just to name a few.

Because of the diversity of reasons for the spread of Lyme disease, controlling and reducing the number of occurrences of the disease takes a multitude of approaches. One popular approach is to reduce the population numbers of ticks that vector the disease.

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