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

Visit our ​Spray Safe, Play Safe project website here!
An educational initiative to promote safe and judicious pesticide use by families for backyard tick control.  Funded by an EPA Healthy Communities Grant, this project 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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