Get ready for a whole lot more Lyme disease in the Northeast.

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By Amelia UrryMar 6, 2017, 3:30 pm156 pts
The tick-borne disease is spreading, thanks in part to climate change. But another culprit has been stealthily transmitting the disease, NPR reports, leading to infection rates three times higher today than they were in the early 1990s: mice. Turns out mice thrive in the chunks of forest padding the roads and…

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