Mice and Lyme disease

Since the early ’90s, reported cases of Lyme disease have tripled and 2017 will be a particularly risky year for the disease. Symptoms of Lyme disease include red rashes or a fever. Mice are efficient transmitters of Lyme disease and infect up to 95 percent of the ticks that feed on them. An individual mouse might have 50, 60, even 100 ticks covering its ears and face. Climate change is to blame for the spike in Lyme disease. Mice thrive in degraded, fragmented landscapes, such as urban landscapes where their natural predators are mostly absent. Without as many foxes, hawks and owls to eat them, mice populations explode. So if you been out in the forest hiking here is what you can do to keep from getting infected? When you’re in the shower check your body for ticks, especially the places like your scalp, behind the ears, the armpits and in the groin area. If you do find a tick, get it off as quickly as possible as the longer an infected tick stays on your skin, the greater the chance it will pass the Lyme bacteria on to you. As a rule of thumb, it takes about a full day after being bitten for the tick to infect you.

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http://www.delta-optimist.com/opinion/blogs/blog-mice-and-lyme-disease-1.11169095

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