Borderless Bite: How Lyme Disease Became the World’s Smallest Passport-Free Invasion
Ticks, the world’s tiniest geopolitical agents, have quietly staged a soft-power coup. While humans bicker over tariffs and TikTok, Ixodes scapularis and its cosmopolitan cousins are drawing new maps of suffering with every blood meal. Lyme disease—once a quaint New England curiosity blamed on suburban deer and hippie communes—now keeps epidemiologists awake from the fjords…