lyme disease, n.Trivia

lyme disease is more prevalent today than in the past due to an explosion in the white-footed mouse population at the turn of the 20th century due to habitat destruction.

Lyme Disease is the most commonly reported vector-borne infectious disease in the United States

Lyme Disease is known as the 'yuppie disease' because it disproportionately effects people living in the suburbs

Lyme Disease is far less prevalent in the west coast of the US thanks, in part, to the Western Fence Lizard which carries a protein that cures the disease in the ticks that bite them