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Spray Safe, Play Safe: Promoting Integrated Tick Management for Preventing Lyme Disease in Children

An educational initiative to promote safe and judicious pesticide use by families for backyard tick control.  Funded by the 2017 EPA Healthy Communities Grant Program is being conducted in collaboration with our long time community partner, the Town of Ridgefield’s BLAST Tickborne Diseases Prevention Program.

Related publications/abstracts:
R Krell, Reid, J, Hornbostel, V, Volpe S, and Connally, NP.  Spray safe, play safe: promoting effective and judicious backyard acaricide use by familiesto prevent Lyme and other tickborne diseases. The 15th International Conference on Lyme Borreliosis and Other Tickborne Diseases, Atlanta, GA, September 2018.
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Western Connecticut State University
Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences
181 White Street
​Danbury, CT 06810
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