Soon, the snow will melt, the grass will green up, and the fields will be filled again with toffee-colored deer—or, as we affectionately refer to them, Cloven-hoofed Disease Vectors. From a distance, it is hard to see the tiny ticks that get a free ride on the deer, then drop off into the grass and try to catch an inbound express on a human ankle or animal belly. These ticks are quite often carrying bacteria. In my household alone, we've had two bouts of Lyme disease (me), one of...