To combat Lyme disease, Fairfax County is turning to a horse of different color. Make that a deer of a different color.

The county is using a fluorescent-pink pesticide dye to kill deer ticks – which can spread Lyme disease – as part of a $380,000 pilot study to see whether the pesticide works and whether the county should keep using it.

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