
07/29/2025
Follow the trail, find yourself.
- not a tick borne disease.
The University of Maine Cooperative Extension Tick Lab released a first-of-its-kind study that found Lyme disease present in 40% of approximately 2,000 deer ticks it tested. 184 total ticks were found by people who were hiking. That’s 129 adult ticks and 55 nymphs, at 9.7% of the total ticks tested.
Though only the third-largest category in this study, hiking is a well-known risk factor for ticks since it often puts people in or near wooded areas, where ticks live and hunt for hosts.