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Lymes Disease Symptoms

May 12, 2011 123| Posted in Lyme Disease

Lyme disease is caused by tick bites. Lyme disease is caused directly by the Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium, as it is commonly known in the United States. In Europe, a different form of bacterium, Borrelia afzelii, also causes Lyme disease . Ticks will pick up the bacteria when they bite deer, or rodents such as mice …