What Is the Most Common Way to Get Lyme Disease? The most common way to get Lyme disease is through the bite of the black-legged tick (also called the deer tick) or the western black-legged tick.

The American dog tick spreads the bacteria that causes Rocky Mountain spotted fever, as well as the bacteria that leads to tularemia. The Western blacklegged tick, which can also spread Lyme ...

They are common in the eastern United States. On the west coast lives their closest cousin, the western black-legged tick.

Specifically, if the tick that bit you looked engorged with blood, was removed within the last 72 hours and was a blacklegged tick, your doctor might give you a single dose of antibiotics to ...

Powassan encephalitis and Rocky Mountain spotted fever, two serious tick-borne diseases, have been identified in Minnesota residents, state health officials said today. More commonly occurring ...

Much of the Western Upper Peninsula (U.P.) of Michigan has been identified by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services as a confirmed area with blacklegged ticks present with Lyme bacteria ...