Lyme disease is a potentially debilitating and sometimes chronic infection transmitted to humans and other animals by certain ticks. Of the 48 tick species found in California, the western black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus, is the only tick thought to be responsible for transmitting the bacterium that causes the disease to people.
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