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Re:Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021 by littlestymaar on Thursday October 21, 2021 @04:54AM (#28942010)
My understanding is that if the tick was only a vector between two humans (for instance, malaria isn't a zoonosis, because the mosquito is just transmitting the disease between humans), then it would not be a zoonosis. But in most cases with Lyme disease, the tick is actually transmitting the disease from another animal to a human, therefore it is indeed a zoonosis.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease#Transmission

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