The symptoms of Lyme disease begin about a week after a bite by an infected tick.

Your doctor will also ask about your activities to try to find out if you have been around infected ticks.

They can also be infected through the bite of an infected tick.

Nearly all of these infected ticks will cause Lyme disease if they are not removed.

When an infected tick bites, it can inject the organism into the victim's blood.

They may have an infected tick on them that will spread Lyme disease!

This disease is caught from the bite of an infected tick.

Heart problems, which are rare but can occur months to even years after being bitten by an infected tick.

At least 50 mice must be captured to extract a credible rate of infected ticks, they said.

"Knowing the percentage of infected ticks in an area is particularly useful."