Five reasons to not totally panic about ticks and Lyme disease

BITE ME This summer, a lone star tick bit the author’s baby. The culprit, shown, was a nymph that wasn’t carrying disease-causing bacteria and had only a bit of blood in its belly, according to the lab that tested it.
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