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News and Articles on White-footed Mouse
Newsweek: Infectious diseases likely to increase Jun 24, 2009
The ideal incubator for the Lyme bacterium is the white-footed mouse, a remarkable survivor in fragmented habitats. Infected mice don't get sick, but they allow the pathogen to multiply and pass it on to ticks who feed on all the local mammals, including humans. (MSNBC -- Health)
Study: Michigan mammals rapidly migrating north May 23, 2009
Of those, four are on the upswing in northern Michigan: the white-footed mouse, southern flying squirrel, eastern chipmunk and opossum. They historically lived farther south and have migrated northward. (Gaylord Herald Times, MI)
Deer population in subcommittee line of sight Feb 27, 2009
Sesto explained that it is the white-footed mouse that infects the deer tick with Lyme disease agent, then adult ticks use deer as hosts, making the white-tailed deer responsible for the reproductive success of the deer tick. Concluding her presentation Sesto maintained that an ecologically balanced density is 10-20 deer per square mile, yet to effectively break the transmission of Lyme disease deer density needs to be 8 deer per square mile. (Fairfield Minuteman, CT)
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