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Topic: What is the chance?

LBS
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I thought I read somewhere that a tick has a 50/50 chance of carrying a TBI.

Is this true? What are the odds?

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Keebler
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Q: A tick has a 50/50 chance of carrying a TBI.?

I think pretty much everything is a 50/50 chance. Either yes or no.

If talking about the percentage of infected ticks found during particular collection efforts:

In some places, that is higher. I've seen some counts as 80% of captured ticks to be infected.
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[ 04-24-2012, 10:20 PM: Message edited by: Keebler ]

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Lymetoo
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Each area of the country is different. My LLMD told me that in the NE, the rate is about 85% chance. In the Midwest it's more like 10-20%.

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Keebler
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I wonder for all the tick collections that have been done in various states (and it's not as many as we might think), how many follow the same collection & testing procedures?

I know in my state, the methods were not really up to par for the best collection of data.
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