Risk of developing Lyme disease after a tick bite is about 3 percent: Dutch researchers – Outbreak News Today (via Outbreak News Today)

Researchers with the Centre for Infectious Disease Control Netherlands, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands say the overall risk of developing Lyme borreliosis after a tick bite was 2.6 percent, according to a study published PloS One Monday. In the study, they used 3,525 single tick bite reports from three large prospective …

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