In early July, 1863, troops from General Robert E. Leeâs Army of Northern Virginia (the Confederates) met up with a patrol of Union cavalry on the outskirts of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Over the next three days, this encounter grew into a turning point of the Civil War.
In the South, lone star ticks (Amblyomma americanum) can also transmit Lyme disease or a closely related illness. Ticks have four life stages: egg, larva, nymph and adult. In each stage after hatching, they suck blood from animals like mice, squirrels, birds and deer.
TERC Answer: First off, you can only get Lyme disease if a tick that is a carrier of the disease-causing microbe bites you. Second, Blacklegged (deer) ticks are the most common type of tick transmitting the Lyme disease bacterium from host to host.