"Deer are hosts to ticks that can spread Lyme disease, a serious illness that is very difficult to detect."

This editorial regarding a deer "custody" dispute in Dauphin Island (AL) mentions the risk of Lyme Disease...in Alabama. Apparently the truth is slowly getting out.

"Deer are hosts to ticks that can spread Lyme disease, a serious illness that is very difficult to detect."

EDITORIAL: State was right to remove deer from island

tuscaloosanews.com

Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries officials have a thing or two to learn about public relations. The agency sent two officers to Dauphin Island and shot two deer that had become neighborhood pets with tranquilizer guns so