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The problem: Tick-borne diseases

Vet’s advice Neil McIntosh SG’s gundog health expert

am afraid not. Ticks have been scaring man for a long time. John Josselyn, who visited New England in 1638, wrote: “There be infinite numbers of tikes hanging upon the bushes in summer time that will cleave to a man’s garments and creep into his breeches eating themselves in

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