Lyme Disease Case Study Answers
Lyme Disease
Lyme Disease is a major problem, especially in New England, which is where it started. Lyme Disease is spread around by deer ticks; they feed on an organism and that organism may get infected. The bacteria that causes Lyme Disease is Borrelia Burgdorferi, a spirochete that causes a lot of damage to your body. However, there are two different solutions that could stop Lyme Disease from spreading even more: vaccines and population control. Deer ticks get Lyme from the mice they prey on as larvae. If the mice were given vaccines, that would stop the ticks from spreading Lyme. On the other hand, if the mice populations were lowered, the number of Lyme Disease cases might get reduced too.
I would give the vaccine to mice because that’s where the ticks get Lyme, according to BrainPOP. If the ticks don’t get B. …show more content…
Controlling the population of mice can lead to other species, that feed on mice, going extinct. The vaccine would only help get rid of Lyme Disease.
If either the deer or mice populations were reduced, then the whole environment would be affected. If the mice population were reduced then the predators that feed mainly on mice like birds of prey would drop, and grains that mice feed on would increase. If the deer population decreased then the predators of deer, like wolves, would decrease as well.
A lot of time would be needed for either using the vaccine or the population control. For the vaccine, it has to be given to just about every mouse that has Lyme Disease to be effective, making it take a long time to actually work. Also, the resources for the vaccines would cost a lot, considering the amount of mice currently and their reproduction rate. For population control, even lots of predators would take a while to get the mice population lowered. The resources for that would just be predators, like owls, that mainly feed on
Lyme Disease is a major problem, especially in New England, which is where it started. Lyme Disease is spread around by deer ticks; they feed on an organism and that organism may get infected. The bacteria that causes Lyme Disease is Borrelia Burgdorferi, a spirochete that causes a lot of damage to your body. However, there are two different solutions that could stop Lyme Disease from spreading even more: vaccines and population control. Deer ticks get Lyme from the mice they prey on as larvae. If the mice were given vaccines, that would stop the ticks from spreading Lyme. On the other hand, if the mice populations were lowered, the number of Lyme Disease cases might get reduced too.
I would give the vaccine to mice because that’s where the ticks get Lyme, according to BrainPOP. If the ticks don’t get B. …show more content…
Controlling the population of mice can lead to other species, that feed on mice, going extinct. The vaccine would only help get rid of Lyme Disease.
If either the deer or mice populations were reduced, then the whole environment would be affected. If the mice population were reduced then the predators that feed mainly on mice like birds of prey would drop, and grains that mice feed on would increase. If the deer population decreased then the predators of deer, like wolves, would decrease as well.
A lot of time would be needed for either using the vaccine or the population control. For the vaccine, it has to be given to just about every mouse that has Lyme Disease to be effective, making it take a long time to actually work. Also, the resources for the vaccines would cost a lot, considering the amount of mice currently and their reproduction rate. For population control, even lots of predators would take a while to get the mice population lowered. The resources for that would just be predators, like owls, that mainly feed on