Key Lyme Points As we are entering the outdoors/warm season, I start getting a lot of frantic calls and emails about limes, probably because of all the limeade floating around out there. Well don't worry because in a pinch, grapefruit or lemons are a good substitu... Oh sorry, I meant I get a lot of frantic calls and emails about LYME disease. There is a ton of information and misinformation out there about Lyme disease so I'm going to try to go through it bullet point style and just hit the salient features. - Let's start with ticks. The most common tick around here is the wetern black-legged tick (Ixodes pacificus) and they are active pretty much all year long. The adults are most active from around the first rain of the year till May and the nymphs (babies) are most active from January till the end of summer. But this is a little outdated data which will probably change as the climate continues to, so let's just assume ticks are always around...
Scott Selinger, MD, FACP musing on the questions you keep meaning to ask your doctor