A New Approach to Stopping Ticks — With an Old Drug

Image: Adult deer tick. Image credit: Scott Bauer / USDA. Article by Maryn McKenna. Undark – July 25, 2023. This story was originally published by Wired. 

A small study showed that feeding deer a type of ivermectin reduced the number of ticks drinking their blood.

It turns out that eating ivermectin is good for something after all. If you’re a deer, that is. And if the goal is to kill the ticks that are biting you — ticks that carry diseases that threaten humans. The antiparasitic drug, which is mostly used on animals, gained a raucous following during the Covid pandemic […]

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