# A New Approach to Stopping Ticks — With an Old Drug

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/a-new-approach-to-stopping-ticks-with-an-old-drug/
- Published: 2023-07-29T10:00:06-05:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

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 […] Click here to view original web page at undark.org