Ticks spread plenty more for you to worry about beyond Lyme disease
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When it comes to problems caused by ticks, Lyme disease hogs a lot of the limelight.
But various tick species carry and transmit a collection of other pathogens, some of which cause serious, even fatal, conditions.
In my career as apublic health entomologist, I’ve been amazed at the ability of ticks to bounce back from all the ways people try to control them, including with pesticides. Ticks excel at finding new ecological niches for survival. So people and ticks frequently cross paths, exposing us to their bites and the diseases they carry.