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MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Researchers identified the bacterium behind the debilitating Lyme disease decades ago. They have understood its life cycle requires an interaction between infected deer and the specific species of ticks that feeds on them. And they've known while there are many different strains of the Lyme disease-causing bacterium, reinfection of people by the same strain of the bacteria is rare. Up until recently, scientists had presumed the antibodies produced to neutralize the bacteria did their work inside a person's body. A recent...
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — The work is only beginning for the U.S. Forest Service when the last wisp of smoke disappears from any large wildfire. After more than 700,000 acres of national forest lands burned in Montana this summer, the agency decided the usual way of doing business wasn't going to cut it this year. Somewhere close to 2,000 fires were reported on national forest lands. Thirty-six of those grew large enough to require what the agency calls a burned area emergency response (BAER). Those efforts consider everything from replacing c...
