The Outdoors and Lyme Disease

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If you are from the United States, you most likely enjoy wearing short sleeve shirts, short pants, and ankle socks while exploring the outdoors during the spring and summer seasons. Unfortunately, these seasons are exactly when larval and nymphal ticks hosting the spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, are most active. So be weary for ticks while venturing through the great outdoors so you don’t contract this disease.

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