article_snippet.sent: At the other extreme, symptoms may be so mild that someone who's been bitten by an infected tick may experience only flu-like symptoms.
article_snippet.sent: Lyme disease, or Lyme borreliosis, is a bacterial infection spread to humans by infected ticks.
article_snippet.sent: Ticks that carry the bacteria responsible for Lyme disease which can infect humans .
article_snippet.sent: Many people with early-stage Lyme disease develop a distinctive circular rash at the site of the tick bite, usually around 3 to 30 days after being bitten.
article_snippet.sent: This is known as erythema migrans.
article_snippet.sent: This is known as post-infectious Lyme disease.
article_snippet.sent: Lyme disease is caused by a bite from an infected tick.