Lyme Disease: What to Know

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If Lyme disease isn't treated in its early stages, it can extend to more areas of the body, affecting your joints, heart, and nervous system.

This is the most serious stage of the disease, when treatment either didn’t work or never started. It usually happens many months after the first bite. Symptoms include:Do All Ticks Transmit Lyme Disease?No. In the northeastern and north-central U.S., the black-legged tick carries Lyme disease. In the Pacific coastal U.S., the western black-legged tick spreads the disease.

Other major tick species in the U.S., like the lone star tick and the dog tick, do NOT transmit the Lyme disease bacterium. But beware: All 50 states have reported Lyme disease, as well as Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America.Insects like mosquitoes, flies, or fleas, although these insects can carry the borrelia bacteriaIf a tick bites you, right away you’ll probably notice a small, red bump that looks like a mosquito bite.

 

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JV Wild949 brought this to light .

I've had all them symptoms. Live in the countryside.

What symptoms does Rocky Mountain Tick Fever give you long term?How do you prevent it if you live on a farm? If you spray OFF & spray herbicide on grass for ticks?

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