Credit: NASA

May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month.

To find out how to steer clear of Lyme disease during “picnic season” – a time when people are more likely to pick up ticks – the National Science Foundation spoke with NSF-funded disease ecologist Rick Ostfeld of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y., and program director Sam Scheiner of NSF’s Division of Environmental Biology.

Ostfeld’s research is funded by the joint NSF-NIH Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Program and NSF’s Long-Term Research in Environmental Biology Program.

http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=131439&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1