Research led by the Yale School of Public Health and published in December 2014 in the journal PLOS ONE used laboratory experiments, mathematical models, and fieldwork data to find that mice infected with the agent that causes Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi) are at increased risk for also transmitting Babesia microti, the pathogen responsible for babesiosis,… Continue reading Lyme Disease Ups Spread of Emerging Tick Infection