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Learn how to avoid bites from blacklegged ticks, which may carry Lyme disease.

Lyme disease is a potentially serious infection that you can get if you’re bitten by an infected blacklegged tick (also called a deer tick).

Not all blacklegged ticks carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, and not everyone who is bitten by an infected tick will develop signs and symptoms of Lyme disease.

On this webpage, you will learn:

• What blacklegged ticks looks like

• Where blacklegged ticks live

• How to avoid getting a tick bite

• How to remove a tick

• Tick testing

• Lyme disease signs and symptoms

• Lyme disease diagnosis and treatment

• Additional resources