> I believe that if more than half the ticks in the Northeast are carriers of lyme disease.
I’ve heard that the actual number is around 20%. Still, those are lousy odds.
Yeah, I may have been using hyperbole. But 20% means that just getting bit two or three times is REALLY dangerous.
The ones I really hate are the really tiny ones. You don’t see them often until they’ve munched on your blood a bit. I believe the good news is that that stage is much less likely to have picked up any of the dreaded diseases.
And lone star ticks are apparently pretty harmless. I live seeing that white dot on a tick that’s feeding on me.