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| Entomologists have studied ticks and how to control them. They have found several repellents effective against the American dog, or wood tick--carrier of Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Wearing one sock treated with a repellent and another untreated sock, entomologists at the Savannah, Georgia laboratory stand in a tick enclosure to study the effectiveness of repellents. Note the number of ticks that have crawled up the two pairs of socks.
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