For example, she says, bobcats help curb Lyme disease by preying on white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus), which are considered the primary animal reservoir of the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria ...

This is the white-footed deer mouse, Peromyscus leucopus. People who are exposed by breathing in when fresh urine, dropping or nesting material of infected mice or rats are stirred up, the CDC said.

By Mongabay.com “Bobcats are disease defenders,” Zara McDonald, founder of the U.S.-based conservation nonprofit Felidae ...

Four rodents in the U.S. are known to carry it: the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus), white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus), marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris), and hispid cotton rat (Sigmodon ...

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On February 28, 2025, actor Gene Hackman and his wife, pianist Betsy Arakawa, were found dead in their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A week later, a medical examiner concluded that Arakawa, 65 ...