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How and where is lyme disease spread?
Lyme disease is spread by ticks. Lyme disease can be pretty much everywhere.
How is RMSF spread?
The bacteria causing RMSF is passed to humans through the bite of an infected tick. The illness begins within about two weeks of such a bite.
What is a Tick-borne disease?
A disease that is spread to animals by the bite of an infected tick
What tick is an intermediate host for borrelia burgdorferi?
The deer tick (Ixodes scapularis) is an intermediate host for Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. The bacterium is transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected deer tick.
How do ticks get infected with the Lyme disease bacteria?
Ticks get infected with the Lyme disease bacteria when they feed on an infected animal, such as mice or deer. The bacteria then multiply and are passed on to other hosts, including humans, through the tick's bite while feeding.
What is the symbiosis relationship of a deer and a tick?
The symbiosis relationship of a deer and a tick is parasitism. The deer is the harmed host and the tick is harming the host.
Why are deer getting Lyme disease?
They are subject to heavy predation from a tick that caries this bacteria and transmits it to the deer. The deer do not present symptoms as they are a vector of the parasitic bacteria and not the terminal host.
Is a tick living on a deer mutualism?
Both. Ticks are essentially parasites and can have bacteria that may affect a deer's health. Too many ticks can also harm a deer.
Could you inform me about Lyme Disease symptoms?
Lyme Disease is a tick released bacterium that is released when a deer tick bite. These can only happen if the tick carries the germ which is very common.
A bacterial infection called Lyme disease is spread by what?
Lyme disease is spread by the bite of an infected blacklegged tick. The tick becomes infected by feeding on mammals or birds that carry the bacteria. The bacteria responsible for Lyme disease is called Borrelia burgdorferi.
What is a lyme tick?
There is no such thing as a "Lyme Tick". Are you asking what tick carries Lyme Disease? Lyme is a bacteria that a tick might be carrying. It causes Lyme Disease when it the tick bites you. It was previously thought that only Deer Ticks carry Lyme Bacteria. More and more they are finding that any tick may carry it.
How is lyme disease transmitted?
Lyme Disease is transmitted to a human through a tick bite if the tick is carrying the spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi. The tick transmits the spirochete which causes the disease. It is most commonly found in the brown deer tick.
