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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Warmer climate and growing deer populations are expanding tick habitats and increasing Lyme disease risk.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Antibody blood tests can confirm infection, but early results may be falsely negative.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Warmer spring weather increases the risk of tick exposure and Lyme disease.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Biological data inherently comes with a privacy risk. ]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Despite decades of research, understanding how DNA variations link to disease remains slow due to scientific and computational limits.]]></image:caption>
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