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379 South Branch Road
Hillsborough, NJ 08844
Hillsborough, NJ 08844
908.369.4313
379 South Branch Road
Hillsborough, NJ 08844
379 South Branch Road
Hillsborough, NJ 08844
Lyme Disease is one of the most prevalent communicable diseases in New Jersey. It is not communicable person to person, but it is carried by a “vector”. It is caused by a spirochete (curvy shaped) bacterium, which is carried by the deer tick (now called the black-legged tick- the vector) to animals and people. Not all black-legged ticks carry Lyme Disease, and it is believed that a tick must be feeding on the host for at least 24 hours for infection to occur.
University of Rhode Island Tickencounter Resource Center
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