The Appalachian Trail Conservancy takes lime disease so seriously they list lime disease at the top of their health page ahead of even sanitation. For that reason when NPR posts a story with the headline Forbidding Forecast for Lime disease in Northeast it is worth paying attention to.
The reasoning follows that a study from 2005 determined that an increase in mouse populations are correlated with an increase in Lyme disease incedence. Therefore a “mouse plague” observed by a husband and wife team of Rick Ostfeld (coauthor of the 2005 journal study) and Felicia Kessing in the Hudson River Valley should indicate 2017 will have higher incidence than normal of Lyme disease. ...
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