I never found the tick bite. There was no bulls-eye, no rash (at first) and no sign of a blood bloated arachnid sticking to me just waiting to send its poison into my blood stream.
Lyme disease is a major illness related with this. It's caused by a tick that lives on deers. Coastal Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Long Island are on top of the list that concern Lyme Disease. As if this wasn't enough,
Lyme disease season runs from April to September. Lyme disease is a bacterial infection contracted from being bitten by an infected tick. If your family and.
Ticks are carriers of the Lyme bacterium in their stomachs. The ticks then are vectors that can transmit the bacterium to humans with a tick bite. The number of cases of the disease in an area depends on the number of ticks present and how often the ticks are infected with the bacteria. In certain areas of New York, where Lyme disease is common, over half of the ticks are infected. Lyme disease has been reported most often in the northeastern United States, but it has been reported in all 50 states, as well as China, Europe, Japan, Australia, and parts of the former Soviet Union. In the United States, it is primarily contracted in the Northeast from the states of Maine to Maryland, in the Midwest in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and in the West in Oregon and Northern California.
