AdvertisementForbidding Forecast For Lyme Disease In The NortheastMarch 06, 2017Michaeleen DoucleffJane GreenhalghfacebookEmailWhite-footed mice are efficient transmitters of Lyme disease in the Northeast. They infect up to 95 percent of the ticks that feed on them. But it's people who create the conditions for Lyme outbreaks by building homes in the animals' habitat. (Stephen Reiss for NPR)