In an attempt to fight Lyme disease, an illness carried by ticks
that attack a person's nervous system and internal organs, a
physician in Armonk, N.Y., won a patent this week for a "deer
gazebo" that sprays deer, the most important carriers of adult
ticks, with insecticide. Lyme disease is especially severe in
Westchester and Suffolk Counties, but it occurs over much of the
Eastern Seaboard as well. One company, Eco Health Inc. of
Boston, is already marketing a product intended to treat mice,
which carry ticks while they are in their larval and nymph
stages. The deer gazebo, invented by Kenneth B. Liegner, would
lure deer with bait. Once the deer stepped onto it, the inventor
said, it would activate pumps that spray a fine tick-killing
poison mist over the animal. Dr. Liegner said he envisioned
using an insecticide called cyfluthrin, which was recently
approved by the Federal Government and which poses little danger
to mammals. Dr. Liegner said the gazebos would have to be
deployed in fairly large numbers ov