Lyme disease is an illness of the modern age.

莱姆病是现代社会的一种疾病。

How serious is the Lyme disease issue here in Nantucket?

楠塔基特岛的疾病问题到底有多严重呢？

Here in the Northeast, our natural disaster is Lyme disease.

而在东北部，最常见的自然灾害则是莱姆病。

The diagnosis: chronic Lyme disease, a tick-borne bacterial infection.

慢性莱姆病, 蜱传播的细菌感染。

And they contribute to the lyme disease problem as tick hosts.

另外，它们是蜱虫的宿主，会传播莱姆病。

The biggest problem is probably the transmission of lyme's disease.

最大的问题可能是莱姆病的传播。

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the US.

莱姆病是美国最常见的虫媒传播疾病。

She has had Lyme disease, also caused by tick bites, four times.

她患过四次莱姆病，也是由蜱虫叮咬引起的。

They were investigating what we now call Lyme disease.

他们正在研究我们现在称之为莱姆病的疾病。

Any offspring of these modified mice would inherit Lyme disease immunity.

它们的所有后代将对莱姆病菌免疫。

This helped narrow down the cause of Lyme disease to the ticks.

这有助于将莱姆病的病因缩小到蜱虫身上。

This is what it looks like to wake up with Lyme disease, very hard.

这就是我得了莱姆病之后醒来的样子，真的太难了。

And watch for Lyme disease symptoms over the next few weeks.

Remove it with fine tipped tweezers.用细尖镊子将其取出。在接下来的几周里要密切注意是否出现莱姆病的症状。

There are also tick-borne causes of meningitis like Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria - which the cause of Lyme disease.

脑膜炎也有蜱传播病因，比如像莱姆病螺旋体菌，这也是莱姆病病因。

Lyme disease is contracted from tick bites, and ticks are found outdoors, fitting the patient's history.

莱姆病是由蜱叮咬感染的，蜱多见于户外，符合患者的旅游史。

Researchers believe climate change has a lot to do with this dramatic rise of Lyme disease in the Northeast.

研究人员认为，东北部莱姆病病例的急剧上升与气候变化有很大的关系。

How are you genetically altering the mice to make them immune to Lyme disease?

那么怎样通过基因改造来让它们对莱姆病菌免疫呢？

The chain of transmission starts when a tick bites a white footed mouse carrying Lyme disease.

当壁虱叮咬携带莱姆病菌的白足鼠时，这条传染链就开始了。

Cases of Lyme disease in particular have almost tripled in the last two decades in the US.

特别是在美国，莱姆病的病例在过去二十年中几乎增加了两倍。

A weird additional factor that's helped spread Lyme disease is the recent abundance of acorns in the US.

帮助传播莱姆病的另一个略显古怪的因素是最近美国橡子数量的增加。