Anonymous wrote:I worked at a summer camp. I have had hundreds of tick bites and so did the various people I knew connected with the camp. I know only one who got Lyme's and he was the director and there all summer for 10 yrs. I point this out only because I think it's idiotic to get antibiotics for every tick bite.

My friend was bitten once and the tick transmitted Lyme and some other gross condition. She was on antibiotics for quite some time.

Just b/c you're Superwoman doesn't mean the rest of us are.

Also known as a "Dog Tick" Dermacentor variabilis, known as the American Wood Tick, is widespread in the US, Canada and Mexico. Notorious hotspots in California are the Coastal areas, Eastern Sierra range and central valley. These ticks carry Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Ehrlichia chaffeensis- causative agents of ehrlichiosis.