Any place where there are deer, you will find deer ticks.
In late spring of 2011, while visiting a friend in New Hampshire's garden, we walked through some high grass.
The following morning, getting ready for a shower, I noticed a small blood clot where the waist band was for my pajammas, and picked it off.
It wasn't a blood clot, because when I looked at it, it had moving legs; I continued disrobing and found 4 others on my legs.
Headed home the next day, I did some research online and contacted my primary care physician.
It turned out that my research gave me more medical information about ticks than my physician knew about ticks, and I insisted on a four week series of antibiotics.
But this occurred in 2011, and more medical research is now available to physicians and the general population regarding viri and bacteria carried by vectors.
[[Any place where there are deer, you will find deer ticks.]]
Mice carry disease ridden ticks as well- and mice are everywhere
It used to be said ticks needed to feed 48 hours before they transmitted lyme disease- but now they say it’s almost instantaneous, and even the nearly invisible baby ticks can infect you