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The Tiny Thieves Inside Every Tick Bite
Every summer, millions of Americans venture into tall grass and wooded trails, unknowingly walking into microscopic crime scenes. Inside the ticks waiting in that vegetation, bacteria are pulling off one of nature's most elegant heists—turning their hosts' own cellular machinery into accomplices. New research reveals exactly how the microbes behind Lyme disease and anaplasmosis hijack tick biology to fuel their spread.
