A new Dartmouth study, published in Parasites and Vectors, finds that 50% of adult blacklegged ticks carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease while 20% to 25% of the younger (nymph) blacklegged ...

Medically reviewed by Lauren Schlanger, MD Lyme disease is spread through a tick bite. Lyme disease is not contagious or ...

A new Dartmouth study, published in Parasites and Vectors, finds that 50% of adult blacklegged ticks carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease while up to 25% of the younger (nymph) blacklegged ...

It is also possible that the tick was not carrying the disease. Detecting Lyme Disease can be difficult to identify in the early stages as the early symptoms—fever, headache, stiffness, lethargy, and ...

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told senators Thursday that he “never believed” that Lyme disease was created as a biological weapon.

experimented with Lyme disease-infected ticks, which then escaped from the facility around 1975 and spread across the eastern United States. Nevertheless, Kennedy devoted an entire episode of his ...

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A new Dartmouth study, published in Parasites and Vectors, finds that 50% of adult blacklegged ticks carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease while 20% to 25% of the younger (nymph) blacklegged ...