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By Ron Gerhardi, February 6, 2007

Having done the local tick research in the 80's and 90's I am confident to say that we did not have a known human biting tick that could cause the outbreak of disease that I was part of. We did have Ixodes angustus but they were not in large enough numbers to be much of a problem. We also had the hare tick that is known to bite man only rarely. Altho I did not collect any Ornithodorous hermsi, my research tells me they are native to this area. O. hermsi along with H. leporispalustris need to be studied for the transmittance of the infection commonly known as Lyme. My testing indicates suggests this is how I became infected.

Lyme transmitted by mosquitoes, ticks and fleas. CDC