The University of Maine’s Cooperative Extension Tick Lab’s annual report was covered by WGME (Channel 13 in Portland), the Daily Bulldog, Morning Ag Clips, and WFVX (Channel 7 in Bangor). For its report, the lab sampled over 4,700 ticks from all over Maine, and more than 3,500 were deer ticks. Laboratory testing showed that 41.5% of the deer ticks analyzed carried Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, while 12% carried Babesia microti, 9.7% had Anaplasma phagocytophilum and 1.1% carried Powassan virus.
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