I'm a little confused here.

…explained. “The ticks that bite us are actually looking for a deer because that’s where they breed. Without the deer, you don’t have ticks. But if you had only deer, you wouldn’t have any Lyme.”
Why Don’t White-Tailed Deer Get Lyme Disease?
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James Finn
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Jun 4, 2023
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I'm a little confused here. If the ticks that bite us and infect us with the Lyme disease bacteria are not getting the bacteria from deer, where are they getting it from?
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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.
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