Jory Brinkerhoff

Jory Brinkerhoff

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  • Lyme disease symptoms could be mistaken for COVID-19, with serious consequences
    This tick trapped in ancient amber from the Dominican Republic can carry the type of bacteria that causes lyme disease.
    Summer is field season for ecologists like me, a time when my colleagues, students and I go out into fields and woods in search of ticks to study the patterns and processes that allow disease-causing microbes – primarily bacteria and viruses – to spread among wildlife and humans.