ticks dont give lyme disease.
anything that HAS lyme disease can pass it on by blood.
a tick does not have to = a lyme disease carrying tick
an uneducated person would assume hes forgeted or something. a tick bite is common.
not to mention lyme disease is just a bacteria that is cured by a pill (gasp)
this is like the people who panic about sars, anthrax, swine flu.
all have like 1000% more survival rate then the common cold.