Why do they say a tick must be feeding for over 24 hours before transmitting lyme disease?

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Ticks are especially bad this year and I always wondered why it takes so long for them to transmit a disease when you are bit.

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I don’t know about that. 2 years ago I got lyme disease from a tick that I removed within 3h. Had that red rash and took a bunch of antibiotics. Luckily, I noticed it quickly though

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