Deer Numbers Showed No Link to Lyme Tick Abundance Across 35 Years of Hudson Valley Data, but Acorns Did
Nature World News | 12.11.2026 16:47
The long-held idea that deer drive Lyme disease risk did not hold up across more than three decades of data from New York's Hudson Valley. Researchers at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies found no statistical link between deer abundance and the number of young ticks across the full record, according to a study in PNAS.
