Staff writer
SMALL TICKS â A photo from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention illustrates the minute size of the immature black-legged deer tick nymph. There are five nymphs on the muffin amid the poppy seeds. Contributed
CADIZ Harrison County recorded the highest number of Lyme disease cases per capita in the entire state from 2010 through 2019, according to health officials.
Garen Rhome, administrator of the Harrison County Health Department, said the county is a hotspot for the black-legged deer tick, which carries the bacteria that causes Lyme disease an infection transmitted to humans and pets through the bite of an infected tick.