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-Invasive plants, new housing development, and climate change are boosting tick populations in Vermont, officials say, prompting new concerns about diseases the tiny arachnids carry.
Although ticks have been present for a long time in Vermont, the population has grown substantially, said Patti Casey, environmental surveillance program director for the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets.
