Climate Change Institute Cited in Current Article on Lyme Disease Increase

The University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute was mentioned in a Current article about the increase of Lyme disease and ticks in Maine. According to the article, Dr. Peter Rand, the senior investigator at the Vector-borne Disease Laboratory in Scarborough who established the Maine Lyme Disease Research Lab, is working with CCI to provide data on the geographic spread of the deer tick, which is used in models to predict its advance as temperatures rise.