Lyme disease: Ecologist predicts 2017 a bad year in Hudson Valley

In 2012 we reported on the acorn-mice phenomenon and it's relationship with Borrelia burgdorferi-infected black-legged ticks described by Cary Institute disease ecologist Rick Ostfeld: "We had a boom in acorns, followed by a boom in mice. And now, on the heels of one of the smallest acorn crops we've ever seen, the mouse population is crashing. This spring, ["]