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Originally Posted by ishoot308
Yes I have, but deer are NOT the starting carriers of lyme disease, rodents are, deer are not rodents. Deer supply the tick that transmits the bacterium with a place to mate and provides the blood for the female tick prior to production of eggs. Again, deer are not the primary lyme disease carrier they are the dead end host of the bacterium.
Dan
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Dan:
It isn't important if deer are the starting carriers of the disease. What is important is that deer are often the carriers that spread the disease to humans.