In this article you mention that Lyme disease is the most common “insect-borne” disease in the United States. Since Lyme disease is spread by ticks, and ticks have eight legs and are arachnids, Lyme disease is
not insect-borne.
Anne Van Aller
Woodbine, Md.
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