Lyme disease positive ticks up big in Thunder Bay, Ontario

By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews The Thunder Bay District Health Unit (TBDHU) is reporting that 62.5 percent of black-legged ticks (BLTs, formerly known as deer ticks) collected via active surveillance this year have tested positive for the Lyme disease bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi. This is a significant increase in comparison to previous years where approximately 10 percent of BLTs tested [...]

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