Credit: Saskia Keller, National Wildlife Health Center.

Assuming that this outbreak will die out on its own after this large mortality event this year, you decided to do nothing further to try to control the disease. Advance your ticks by 12 weeks/ticks, and subtract one charisma point, because the general public and research community thinks that you are not taking the mortality of tens of thousands of snakes seriously. During this time, road mortality continues to be reported throughout the summer, and in the fall, a big spike in road mortality occurs, where most dead individuals are neonates. What do you do next?