By NICK GOSLING, Special to The Conway Daily Sun
DURHAM — Tick-borne diseases have risen at an alarming rate in the past decade in New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont, posing threats to human, animal and environmental health, and resulting in the need to improve surveillance of tick populations and the pathogens they carry.
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