May is Lyme Awareness Month, and with a wet spring we can expect a big crop of ticks.
Many people say, “I’ve never been bitten by a tick.” Well, one may not even be aware of a tick bite. When deer ticks are in the nymph state, they are the size of a pinhead. Sometimes they feed and fall off before you notice them.
Twenty years ago I was bitten by a deer tick infected with the bacteria that…
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