This article was originally published with the title “ The War Against Field Mice in France ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 109 No. 6 (August 1913), p. 114 doi:10.1038 ...

and those mice, once free from Lyme disease, can't pass it onto ticks. So, the cycle is interrupted. According to the manufacturer, field trials resulted in a 75 percent reduction of Lyme disease.