Western Fence Lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis),with Western Black-legged Tick (Ixodes pacificus),carrier of Lyme disease in California. Researchers at UC Berkeley have found that fence lizards' blood contains a substance that kills the Lyme disease bacterium,Borrelia burgdorferi,when a lizard is bitten by a tick. This may explain the relatively low incidence of Lyme disease in California | |
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