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Which are the ticks that carry lyme disease?

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Dr. Randy Baker answered

Specializes in Holistic Medicine

Deer ticks & maybe..: The most common carriers of borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria that causes lyme disease, are deer ticks (ixodes scapularis) and their cousin ixodes pacificus (western black-legged tick). There is evidence lone star ticks may transmit it. Other ixodes species may carry it too, as may dog ticks and rocky mountain wood ticks. See http://www.Canlyme.Com/ticks.Html for more info on this.

Answered 6/17/2017

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Lymes Disease: The lyme disease bacterium, borrelia burgdorferi, is spread through the bite of a deer tick (ixodes scapularis). http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/.

Answered 4/2/2014

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