Tick-ing Timebomb

Airgun hunters beware! The UK is being warned of a possible epidemic of blood-sucking ticks this summer after a wet, warm winter gave them perfect breeding conditions, according to Professor Richard Wall, an expert at Bristol University. Ticks are tiny parasites that often live on deer and which can pass on nasty diseases – Lyme disease in humans and babesiosis in dogs.

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