However, pets can carry infected ticks that can latch onto your skin and transmit disease. "The types of ticks that usually bite dogs, called dog ticks, aren't the type that carries Lyme disease.
Dogs will have to be kept on leads on Lyme Regis' main beach between October and April Rules banning dogs from being off their leads on a Dorset beach are "unfair, discriminating and depressing ...
Ten years of data by the Maine CDC show that the tick-borne illness continues to spread and intensify, especially in the midcoast and Down East regions. Lyme disease cases again set a new record ...