Pandemic Update: Lyme Worldwide, Hawaii - Rat Lungworm Brain Disease

Lyme Explosion Worldwide

They are blaming it on climate change, but regardless of some temperature change variables that occur the point is that the mouse population is one of the biggest carries of ticks that spread Lyme disease.

How to fight the ticks on mice

Wear Nitrile Gloves for this:  Treat cotton with permethrin and put it in toilet paper tubes or paper towel tubes.  Put those in areas where mice will use them for nesting and it will also cut the tick population drastically.

 Clothing:  Wear long pants and tuck them into your socks.  Treat the clothes with deet to help repel ticks or permethrin to kill them. 


Hawaii - Rat Lungworm Brain Disease

Fruit in Hawaii poses a threat thanks to this disease and slugs that transmit it from rats to food.