Asheville Area Ticks Carry Lyme Bacteria at Northeast Levels, While Local Doctors Were Trained to Call It Rare
Nearly 40 percent of adult blacklegged ticks collected from residential yards in a small town outside Asheville tested positive for the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, a rate comparable to parts of the Northeast, mid-Atlantic, and upper Midwest where the illness is long established. The finding was published this week in the CDC’s Morbidity and…