Lyme Disease in the Adirondacks

Paul Smith College is conducting research on the growing presence of Lyme Disease in ticks and small animals in the Adirondacks. Professor Sporn, from Paul Smith's, has begun to test animals in different regions of the park for lyme disease. After testing in Schroon Lake, Sporn discovered that 8 out of twelve small animals, including mice, voles, and shrews, tested positive for Lyme. In Queensbury, 5 out of eight small mammals tested positive.

As you probably know, humans can also contract the disease through tick bites. The ticks need to bite and remain on the human for at lest twenty-four hours before the disease transmits and spreads throughout the human. In Essex County alone, the department of health related that 34 cases of Lyme disease were confimed in 2014.

Deer Tick

Professor Sporn confirmed that “I think what we’re going to find out is Lyme Disease is a lot more prevalent in this area than imagined." 

If you want to know more, read about it here: http://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2014/10/researchers-finding-lyme-disease-in-adirondacks.html