What You Need to Know About Lyme Disease — and How to Avoid It

This is one bull’s-eye you don’t want to hit. Find out the facts about this tick-borne disease and how to prevent it.

Lying on a bed of grass, hiking through woods and fields, enjoying nature’s playground: Summer brings so many opportunities to have fun outside. But these natural areas, and even your own backyard, may also bring the hidden danger of tick-borne infections. Lyme disease, spread by the bite of an infected black-legged tick, is the most common of these infections in North America, and its numbers are increasing. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 300,000 Americans become infected each year.

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