Cases of Lyme disease are on the rise in Pennsylvania.
The Department of Environmental Protection is responding by launching a five-year surveillance program to prevent the disease from spreading.
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The EPA is getting a $2.5 million grant to study what it is calling a public health issue.
Three types of ticks will be collected in each county in the spring and summer, so their DNA can be analyzed.
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People get Lyme disease when they are bitten by an infected deer tick.
Doctors say it is treatable through antibiotics.