The Lyme Disease Foundation has produced a booklet in PDF format about Lyme Disease and other tick-spread diseases.
According to this booklet, lyme disease is a bacterial infection caused by a spirochete named Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb). The bacterium has been in the U.S. for over 100 years. Bb is maintained in nature by animals whereby certain ticks bite infected animals, ingest the bacteria, then transmit the infection through subsequent feedings. Humans and pets are incidental hosts to the infected ticks.
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