Russian health workers escalate their war against ticks
Russia’s Consumer Rights and Human Well Being watchdog has only 8,000 hectares (almost 20,000 acres) of land left to treat against ticks, from the 125,000 total hectares (309,000 acres) that it planned to process over the course of 2016, said the service’s press office. This year’s plan is more ambitious than those of previous years. Only 50,000 hectares (124,000 acres) of land were treated in 2010.