"Forbidding Forecast For Lyme Disease In The Northeast"

"Rick Ostfeld and Felicia Keesing have been studying Lyme disease and ways to stop it for more than 20 years. The couple has come up with a way to predict how bad a Lyme season will be a full year in advance."

"Last summer Felicia Keesing returned from a long trip and found that her home in upstate New York had been subjected to an invasion.

"There was evidence of mice everywhere. They had completely taken over," says Keesing, an ecologist at Bard College.

It was a plague of mice. And it had landed right in Keesing's kitchen."

Michaeleen Doucleff and Jane Greenhalgh report for NPR March 6, 2017.

Source: NPR, 03/07/2017