

Lyme Disease and Tick Cakes
The Merry Month of May in the Mid-Atlantic USA, we are in the thick of tick season. After a long dry spell, we have been experiencing a deluge, so those ticks and mice better hang on tight! A new book by Mary Beth Pfeiffer calls Lyme Disease "the first epidemic" of climate change. She looks at trends in this disease and how the climate/disease link developed highlighting my 2003 paper that related Lyme Disease incidence to soil moisture published in the. Am. Journal of Epide