The disease is spread by tick bites.

这种疾病通过扁虱叮咬来传播。

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Sound, light, smell, the beds too soft or too hard, too high or too low indoor temperature, mosquitoes, flies or tick bites, etc., will interfere with sleep.

声音、光线、气味，床铺太软或太硬，室内温度太高或太低，蚊、蝇或虱的叮咬等，都会干扰睡眠。

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The disease is spread by tick bites.

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And arthritis of a somewhat different sort sometimes follows Lyme disease, an infection caused by Borrelia burgdorferi which is passed on by tick bites.

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However, Commins did explain that if a person were to avoid tick bites for some time, he or she could become less allergic to meat.

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That is when Platts-Mills concluded there is some relation to the number of tick bites one receives and how allergic one may become to alpha-gal.

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