Home Late night pizza a good thing for you after all. Garlic may be a potent defense against Lyme disease. Lyme Disease Lyme Disease is a tick borne disease spread by a a spirochete bacterium through the bite of infected deer ticks.
Symptoms can be vague and hard to diagnose by patients unaware that they have been bitten.
NOT all deer ticks are infected and able to transmit Lyme. Entomologists estimate that only 30 - 40 percent of deer tick nymphs are infected. Infected ticks must continue to feed for 12-36 hours to transmit the bacteria. May marks the beginning of deer tick season. Late May into June is the peak period for the nymph stage of the deer tick, which accounts for 70 percent of all Lyme disease cases.