News Center cites Tick Lab stats in story about preexposure Lyme shot

NewsCenter Maine mentioned the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Tick Lab and its 2019 findings in a story about University of Massachusetts Medical School researchers working to develop a Lyme preexposure prophylaxis shot to stop the disease before it starts. The UMaine report noted that nearly 40 percent of ticks submitted last year to the tick lab tested positive for Lyme and that ticks carrying Lyme disease were submitted from all 16 counties.