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janinco
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I was wondering if chiggers can carry lyme. I read on a university website that chiggers in North America don't transmit lyme or Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.

In other parts of the world they transmit an illness called scrub typhus which is a rickettsial disease like RMSF. So they are capable of carrying a vector-borne illness.

I grew up in the Ozarks and remember many times getting fevers and being sick for days if I had a lot of chigger bites after a camping trip. It's one of the reasons I love Colorado...no chiggers!

Jan

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I'm sorry i don't know the answer, but i wanted to bump this up so one of the better informed could answer it for you!!
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Don't know about chiggers, but I had no known tick bite ever. I DID have a brown recluse spider bite that abscessed four years later and I asked to be checked for Lyme.

My guess is why not?

Dr. Mattman has found it in fleas, mosquitoes, tears, well water and African dust....could just as easliy be in chiggers.

Just me thinking aloud,

Maggie

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