![]() ![]() It may look similar to a mosquito bite with redness or a red bump. On day 1, the typical bite reaction is a red spot. Tick bites are also generally painless and may go completely unnoticed. If you have a tick bite from a black-legged tick, save the tick for disease testing. The deer tick is known to carry Lyme disease. Lyme disease is most common in children 5 to 15 years old and adults 40 to 60 years of age, and risk of infection is greatest from May to August. While it’s a regional affliction, with 95% of the cases occurring in 14 states in the Upper Midwest, New England, and the Mid-Atlantic, the only state that has had no reports of Lyme disease is Hawaii. ![]() The CDC says 24 hours, but some doctors claim only four hours or less will do it. There is some controversy about how long the tick needs to be embedded to transmit the disease. When an infected black-legged tick bite a human or pet or other animal, it transmits the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, which is transmitted to humans through the bite of infected black-legged ticks. The bacterium is spiral-shaped, which allows it to corkscrew its way from the bloodstream into soft tissue, tendons, joints, and bones. Along the Pacific coast,the Western Blacklegged Tick transmits Lyme disease. In the United States, Lyme Disease is transmitted by the black-legged tick, also called the deer tick it’s found mostly in the Northeast and Upper Midwest of the United States. Source: URI TickEncounter Resource Center Which Ticks Transmit Lyme Disease? In adult females, the scutum covers the front 1/3 of the body but in males it covers the entire body. If you look carefully, you can tell identify a tick not only by its number of legs but also by its scutum or “shield” on the top side. Most cases of lyme disease are contracted when deer ticks are in the nymphal stage because they are so tiny and latch on to bodies unnoticed. ![]() Both nymph (young) and adult deer ticks will bite humans. By the adult stage, it’s the size of a sesame seed. Ticks are very tiny! At the nymph stage, a tick is about the size of a poppy seed and translucent. With hard ticks, disease transmission usually occurs near the end of a meal. Hard ticks have a tough back plate and tend to feed for hours to days. There are both hard ticks and soft ticks but it’s the hard ticks which are associated with most diseases. ![]()
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