News Sauna — New Hope for the Rising Number of Lyme Disease Cases by Randi Clausen

yme disease is on the rise. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have confirmed that Lyme disease cases in the U.S. have increased over 50 percent from 2000 to 2009. One reason for this significant increase may be greater tick densities due to human L development into rural and suburban areas where forests are cut down to isolated patches, known as fragmented forests. With fewer pred - ators in these environments, mice and deer, the main carriers of the Lyme-disease causing bacterium ( Borrelia burgdorferia ), multiply. In turn, the ticks that feed off of these animals and can transmit Lyme disease to humans thrive. It looks likely that cases will continue to increase.

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