UMaine Extension’s Tick ID Lab Cited in Bangor Metro Article on Lyme Disease
The University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Tick ID Lab was mentioned in a Bangor Metro article on learning from Lyme disease. In the last few years, more than 1,000 Lyme disease cases were reported annually in Maine, according to the article. The disease comes from infected deer ticks that transmit the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria to humans when they bite. The Tick ID Lab at UMaine offers a free identification service to determine what kind of tick has bitten a person, the article states. However, no labs in Maine can test a tick for Lyme disease.