[[Lyme takes a minimum of 24 hours of being embedded to be able to even begin to transmit it.]]
I think that has changed. Happens in less than 16 hours they say (if the ticks had recdntly fed on other animals before boting human- the bacteria need time to migrate to mouth parts of tick when they feed on blood, so if they have recently fed, the process has a,ready begun) . And now they say that even the young ticks transmit- the young being so small you can’t see them really.
Ticks are nasty vile creatures.
Interesting because I just heard that they’re now saying it takes closer to 36 hours.
Also, the nymphs are only infected 25% of the time where adults are 50%, but the nymphs transmit more Lyme because they are far harder to see so aren’t removed as often.