That is, make sure to bid your maximum value, i.e., bid the absolute maximum that you would be willing to pay for the item (at least by the end of the auction). eBay is effectively a second-price auction. That is, the highest bidder wins the item and pays the second highest bid for it. Yes, that isn't quite how eBay works because the highest bidder can pay up to the increment over the second highest bid because of the proxy bidding system that eBay uses.
Lyme disease is common in the United States. It can also be found in Canada, Europe, and Asia. Lyme disease is caused by bacteria. Infected ticks spread the bacteria by biting people or animals. Two types of ticks carry the Lyme disease bacteria in the U.S. They are: 1  Deer ticks.
Kerry Clark never wanted to show that Lyme disease exists in the Southern United States by catching it himself. Clark is a medical entomologist at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville.A wiry man with graying brown hair, he is most at home in a kayak on the ponds behind the wooded Jacksonville campus.hey cite plenty of evidence: In the Northeast, where Lyme is endemic, the disease is spread by nymphs (the tickâs juvenile form) of Ixodes scapularis, commonly known as blacklegged ticks. Blacklegged nymphs rarely bite humans down South, though researchers donât agree as to why not.