Secondcurve, although you are correct in being concerned for deer carrying the lyme disease, you also need to be concerned about mice, rats, groundhogs, Foxes, squirrells, red squirrells, dogs, cats, domestic livestock...and any other warm blooded critter that lives or spends time outside.
With that said, preventative measures to not get Lyme are taken by those of us who spend a majority of our lives outside the house. Reading and experience have taught us to be aware of the risks of the environments we are in. Most of us educate ourselves on how to spot and identify a tick on us. We know the high risk areas that they are likely to be and we protect ourselves as much as we can. Moreover, we know how to treat the problem early if we get it. I agree that good herd management practices are a must, but one must be compassionate with the balances of mother nature and understand that simply killing off a carrier of a problem, what ever it may be, will cause potetially greater problems than we were trying to cure. If you still feel that passionate about killing the deer and if you already haven't done it, take a hunters safety course, get a license, buy a gun or bow (practice shooting it, alot) and come and enjoy the great outdoors with the rest of us later this fall.
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