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Meanwhile, brown dog ticks — vectors for the bacterial infection Ehrlichiosis — are trekking north from Mexico into Southern California.

One direction, he argues, is "the vector that this government is writing, displacement, abuse, killing, destroying Palestinian life, ultimately, writing a vector to mass population transfer".

"We worry that there is a vector for fraud... we are concerned about a world where it would be a person who claims to be the owner who's asking."

One of the disease's nicknames, rat fever, reflects its key vector of infection.

They may be disease vectors, but no, the FBI did not think they were terrorists.