TICKS-
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 Ticks
are one of the most relentless causes of the transmission of Lyme disease.
The bacteria Borrclia Surgdorferi causes Lyme disease. When adult and nymph
ticks feed on human or animal blood, the bacteria is transferred to them.
Adult ticks feed on large mammals such as deer, and nymphs feed mainly on
chipmunks and mice.
Chipmunks and mice are the reservoir for Lyme disease,
and when a tick feeds off these small rodents, and then feeds on a human,
the disease can be transmitted.
Nymph ticks cause most of the Lyme disease cases because
they are so small that they go undetected. Transmission occurs within 36
hours of a bite. Humans notice an adult tick on their body due to size.
Seventy-five percent of Lyme disease cases are caught from a tick that was
on the person’s property, and by the spring and summer, twenty-five
percent of all ticks have been infected with Lyme. By fall, fifty percent
of the tick population carries Lyme disease.
Tick Control |
