31.   Barbour said doctors should be taught in medical school how to identify deer ticks.

32.   Deer ticks, also called black-legged ticks, are carriers of bacteria that cause the potentially debilitating disease.

33.   Deer ticks go through three stages.

34.   Now, researchers at Harvard University, Yale University and in Spain have isolated a new virus in deer ticks in New England.

35.   Some physicians already give antibiotics to people who are bitten by deer ticks, the bugs that spread Lyme disease.

36.   Weld said the deer ticks can more easily thrive after the mild winters.