Lyme disease is an infectious disease that is transmitted by a tick also known as the deer tick. This tick is a carrier of a bacteria of the borrelia type which includes Borrelia burgdorferi, Borrelia garinii, Borrelia mayonii, and Borrelia afzelii. Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia mayonii mostly affects people leaving in the United Stated while Borrelia afzelii and Borrelia garinii bacteria causes Lyme disease to people leaving in Asia and Europe.
The tick first bites the wild animal with any of the above bacteria and transmits it to a human being and domestic animals during its next feeding cycle. The bacteria get its way into your body through the tick bite and moves to your bloodstream. This tick is very small that it is difficult to notice it on the skin. The tick also has anesthetic substance in its saliva that makes it difficult to feel the bite.
Lyme disease can also be transmitted by any other infected insects that feed on the blood mainly from wild animal and human being together. The symptoms that later appear as the Lyme disease advances can be spread from one person to the other, for example, the flu. The incubation period of this bacteria is between three to seven days after the bite. This is when the early Lyme disease symptoms start to appear.
You are likely to get Lyme diseases if you live in a bushy environment where ticks are likely to hind. Also, ticks are likely to bite you in summer than in winter seasons because the environment is conducive for feeding. Ticks can be eradicated by spraying on the surrounding and also keeping the grass and bushes around your homestead short.
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