Office of the
Chief Medical Officers of Health

Lyme disease is a bacterial infection transmitted from an infected Blacklegged tick. It can only transmit the bacteria after it has been attached to the skin (feeding on blood) for about 24 hours. It can be prevented by avoiding Blacklegged tick bites, and is treatable with antibiotics.

Blacklegged ticks (the only kind that can carry Lyme disease) have become established in two areas of the province:

Lunenburg area (Blue Rocks, Heckmans Island, Stonehurst and the Brown Hill region behind the Garden Lots cemetery), Lunenburg County. Caution should be exercised in the area extending north towards Mahone Bay and south towards the LaHave River as infected blacklegged ticks may occasionally be present.
 
Admiral’s Cove Park in Bedford, Halifax Regional Municipality

Since 2002, there have been four reported human cases of Lyme disease in Nova Scotia.