Health officials and researchers hope that efforts to control deer populations, which serve as "party buses" for mating ticks, can reverse the tide of ticks and the illnesses they cause.
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Virginia Barbatti moved with her family to Martha's Vineyard full time.
It's an idyllic beach island off the coast of Massachusetts, a summer retreat for presidents from Ulysses S. Grant to Barack Obama.
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