May Is Lyme Disease Awareness Month
May 6, 2014
May 2014 is Lyme Disease Awareness Month in the United States, focusing attention on Lyme disease prevention and treatment. The CDC’s most current statistics regarding the number of reported cases of Lyme disease in the United States, from 2003 through 2012, indicate that the number of confi[...]
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White-Footed Mouse May Spread Lyme Disease
November 7, 2013
It is well known that the “deer tick” (blacklegged tick) can be a carrier of the bacterium that causes Lyme disease and that deer are known hosts of adult deer ticks. However, the question has been posed as to why there has been a rise in the prevalence of Lyme disease in areas wh[...]
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