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On a blisteringly hot, sunny day this summer, Emory researcher Arabella Lewis made her way through the underbrush in a patch of woods in Putnam County, outside Macon. She was after something most people try desperately to avoid while in the woods: ticks.
“Sometimes you got to get back in the weeds to get the best ticks,” she explained, sweeping a large square of white flannel along the forest floor.
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