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I'm convinced you can become and/or grow immune to Lyme, though. It's purely anecdotal.

I grew up where we built our house (deep, deep in the woods). I spent my childhood on the farm there. Ticks were a constant menace, I honestly don't know how many hundreds I pulled off myself as a child.

When I was able, my spouse and I purchased it and built a house. 6 months after moving in, my spouse developed Lymes disease. I have no explanation, other than I am immune to the ticks in the area (or I have had it my entire life with zero symptoms maybe?).



When you were young, those ticks may not have had lyme. More importantly, you removed them. They have to be attached for 24 hours before the bacteria comes back out of the tick's gut.


No, removing them early just reduces the chance of getting Lyme. There's no such thing as a 24 hour barrier.


The article states there is a 36 hour barrier. Do you have a source?


E.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4278789/ "in animal models, transmission can occur in <16 hours, and the minimum attachment time for transmission of infection has never been established"

or

https://www.lymedisease.org/tick-lyme-transmission-time/ "Study finds nymphal ticks can transmit Lyme within 12 hours"




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