Holly Tuten and Graduate Student Erica Hernandez (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Holly Tuten and Graduate Student Erica Hernandez

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Illinois Natural History Survey vector ecologist Holly Tuten, left, graduate student Erica Hernandez and their colleagues discovered that Lone Star ticks in two Illinois counties were infected with the Heartland virus.

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