A bumper crop of acorns has caused an exploding population of mice, which are common carriers of the tiny tick that transmits the insidious disease. And that could translate into a dramatic spike in the number of cases in 2017.
“I’m sorry to say, that’s the scenario we’re expecting,” disease ecologist Richard Ostfeld, who’s been studying Lyme for more than 20 years, told NPR.
And that’s bad news for an ever-increasing number of Americans.
Although some 30,000 cases of Lyme disease are reported every year, experts say that’s just a fraction of people who are actually being infected with the tick-borne bacteria.
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Maybe the doctors down here will finally acknowledge Lymes.
The ticks are carried by mice and all the shore billies kill every snake they see. This just makes the problem worse because there are less snakes to eat the mice.
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