PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • August 17, 2022
Cases of Lyme disease are rebounding in Maine, with the number of cases so far this year on pace to exceed the totals for 2020 and 2021. Maine recorded 1,433 Lyme cases through Aug. 14 this year, compared with 1,127 in all of 2020 and 1,510 in all of 2021, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. And the deer ticks that cause Lyme will actively search for hosts well into the autumn before becoming less active and burrowing beneath leaf litter for the winter. Meanwhile, scientists, including some in Maine, are testing a Lyme vaccine that soon could be approved.