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At-home Lyme disease tests — for ticks — hitting market this month 22%
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8/6/2026, 2:14:24 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 2 faulty reasoning types, including Optimism Bias, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 35.3% saturation with 18 hits. Analysis detected 30 faulty-reasoning hits from 51 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 29.4% and a BS Rank of 22% (22,376 of 28,663 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 78.10% of the article peer group.
The test represents the latest effort to combat Lyme, the most common tick-borne disease in the United States.
NewsdayTV's Ken Buffa spoke with local experts on what you can do to prevent this disease.
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