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By Megan S. Smith
Special to the Rappahannock News
Four little white feet and a long tail dangled from Roscoe’s mouth. The dog had eaten a vector. A bacterium-carrying vector for Lyme disease, that is, known around zoological circles as the white-footed mouse.
The brown mouse with its big black bulging eyes is the primary carrier - or vector - for the spread of Lyme disease in the U.S. From the mouse the bacterium has an arduous, seemingly impossible trip to make before infecting people, leaving them miserable for days, months, even years.
Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne illness in the U.S. and Europe. Caused by bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, it was discovered in 1981 following a bizarre outbreak of arthritis in children years earlier in Lyme, Connecticut. Its various symptoms are difficult to diagnose and harder still to cure if left untreated.
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