Nita Mehta has been bitten many times by ticks over the years. "I've always been extremely sensitive to the bites of many different kinds of arthropods," she says. The tick that we study can carry not just one, but actually five recognize tick-borne illnesses,. It's full of all sorts of different microorganisms that who knows may turn out to be human disease causing capability.

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