Dangers of Disease-Carrying Ticks
Nancy Houser | September 17, 2009
With the fall quickly approaching, this is the time when the adult female blacklegged or deer tick (Ixodes scapularis) is capable of transmitting the Lyme disease infection, one of the most common tick-transmitted diseases in the world and caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. Meanwhile, the nymphal stage [...]
