Open the books and, if it happened, shoot the guilty.
There are a lot of tick-borne diseases. Lyme is real bad, but might not even be the worst. And I live in a high Lyme area.
There’s babesiosis, a real beauty, but still rare here. And a host of others from other parts of the country.
So, an experiment gone bad is possible, but ticks have been bad news for a long time.