Study Confirms: Deer Fencing Does Prevent Lyme Disease

by Jennifer Smith May 15, 2018

In 2016, BMC Public Health reported a study on the use of deer fencing and other landscape control techniques to reduce the risk of Lyme Disease.

Background

Lyme disease control strategies may include tick control interventions in high risk areas. Public authorities may be interested to assess how these types of interventions are perceived by the public which may then impact their acceptability. The aims of this paper are to compare socio-cognitive factors associated with high acceptability of tick control interventions and to describe perceived issues that may explain their low acceptability in populations living in two different regions, one being an endemic region for LD since the last 30 years, the Neuchâtel canton, in Switzerland, and another where the disease is emerging, the Montérégie region, in Canada.

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