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。

To immunize Nantucket's mice population, Esfelt and his team at MIT propose hacking into the white footed mouse's genetic code.

为了免疫楠塔基特岛上的老鼠，麻省理工学院的Esfelt和他的团队提议改变白足鼠的基因序列。

And there is a relationship. But the real reservoir for Lyme is the white footed mouse.

这是有关系的。但莱姆的真正宿主是白脚老鼠。

Ecologists have known for quite some time that the white footed mouse is the primary reservoir, not just of Lyme disease but of pretty much every major tick born disease in the Northeast United States.

生态学家在此前早已发现白足鼠是美国东北部，包括莱姆病在内的多种病毒的寄居者。