Deer Management – Lyme Disease
Help Protect Your Family from Lyme Disease
The Pennsylvania Department of Health classifies residents of Chester County a high risk for contracting Lyme disease. East Goshen Township is launching a program that will protect you from Lyme disease while enjoying our great outdoors. Lyme disease is spread to humans through tick bites. The township is targeting ticks on the two animals that are known to be critical to the development of a mature tick: mice and deer.
You and your family can take advantage of this program right at home. The township has obtained 2 commercial products to make your environment safer.
They are “Tick Tubes” and “4-Poster Feeder/Bait Stations”.Tick tubes are a low cost tool to reduce the number of ticks in the immediate area of your home.
Click here for more information about tick tubes, including how to get yours well below retail prices.
“4-Poster Feeder/Bait Stations”, commonly just called “4-posters”, are more expensive and used to treat ticks in larger areas, approximately 40-50 acres. The township purchased 10 4-posters and installed them throughout the township to broadly reduce the number of ticks in and around our open spaces. Installation of a 4-poster in your development may be a cost effective way for your home owner’s association to protect the entire neighborhood.
Click here for more information about 4-posters.
What else can we do?
The Lyme Disease Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania is a great resource for information about how to protect your family from the disease. Their publication “Lyme Disease and associated diseases The Basics” is an online PDF that provides great questions and answers regarding Lyme disease.The United States Centers for Disease Control recommends the following as the best methods for prevention and control of Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses:
- Use repellent, tick checks, and other simple measures to prevent tick bites
- Control ticks around your home and in your community
- Ask your doctor if taking antibiotics after tick bite is right for you
- Learn the early signs of tick-borne illness
In our efforts to better server our residents, we have prepared a Lyme Disease Awareness & Prevention Q & A Information Poster. 
You can contact the Township for more information.
Click on the flyer to the right to see the entire copy or also to print a copy.
You are welcome to contact any of your elected Board of Supervisors at egtadmin@eastgoshen.org or the township’s Deer Management Committee at deer@eastgoshen.org if you have questions or concerns.
