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'Lyme disease is a ticking time bomb': Leading expert explains how life-wrecking illness is spreading - and what YOU can do to protect yourself

[Don W]

A former professional wrestler friend of mine was recently diagnosed with this. It’s horrible what it has done to her. She was always cheerful and vibrant, but has become quite morose and is in constant pain. From super-fit to slightly dumpy. She can’t concentrate on anything, is very easily confused and hyper-emotional all the time, etc., just like the linked story.

She’s undergoing treatment now, but she knows it’s going to be a long haul.

[AdmSmith]

Mice are highly efficient transmitters of Lyme. They infect up to 95 percent of ticks that feed on them. Mice are responsible for infecting the majority of ticks carrying Lyme in the Northeast. And ticks love mice. “An individual mouse might have 50, 60, even 100 ticks covering its ears and face,” Ostfeld says.

So that mouse plague last year means there is going to be a Lyme plague this year. “Yep. I'm sorry to say that's the scenario we're expecting,” Ostfeld says.

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/03/06/518219485/forbidding-forecast-for-lyme-disease-in-the-northeast