The CDC's Tick Management Handbook

The CDC’s Tick Management Handbook provides an integrated approach to reducing tick populations and lowering the risk of tick-borne disease through coordinated environmental and personal prevention strategies. It explains that effective tick control involves managing landscapes to make them less suitable for ticks and their hosts, alongside encouraging protective behaviors such as avoiding tick habitats and using repellents.

The document also emphasizes that combining environmental management with public education and personal protection measures is the most effective way to reduce human exposure to ticks. These strategies are intended for use by homeowners, pest control professionals, and public health officials working together to prevent tick-borne illness.

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