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Beware of Lyme Disease this Spring

The nasty little creatures transmit Lyme disease, and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention predict 2017 could be a particularly bad year for it in the Northeast. If diagnosed early enough, Lyme disease can be fully cured with antibiotics. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tracks the number of reported Lyme cases in the U.S., which reaches about 30,000 cases annually. Lyme disease symptoms including fever, headache, fatigue and skin rash. Tick season, and by association, Lyme disease season, is at its peak from April through September.

Surge In Mice Is A Harbinger For Lyme Disease

And we end up with forests packed with mice — mice that are chronically infected with Lyme and covered with ticks. So that mouse plague last year means there is going to be a Lyme plague this year. Since the early '90s, reported cases of Lyme disease have tripled, to about 30,000 cases each year. The number of critters scampering around the forest in the summer correlates to the Lyme cases the following summer, they've reported. "We're anticipating 2017 to be a particularly risky year for Lyme," Ostfeld says.



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