The problem is, half of all people infected with the disease have no idea that they were bitten by a tick in the first place.

Ticks and tick-borne diseases will probably keep spreading throughout the U.S.

To bathe a dog, you will need the aforementioned hose and shampoo, as well as a towel. That's for the dog. Sue sighed and

Mepron, a thick liquid antimicrobial drug used to treat Babesia and malaria, as well as a fungal infection called Pneumocystitis

More accurate Lyme disease tests are being developed, but in most cases are not made available to patients except by "Lyme-literate" medical doctors, or LLMDs, who are in high demand and are not available to all patients, as most reside in areas where Lyme disease has reached true epidemic proportions, from Virginia to the Northeast.