In my line of work it's unavoidable. I've had lyme three times. Catch it early and doxicillin the next day you're right as rain.
If you ever catch Anaplasmosis however don't mess around. Had it once when it was pretty much unknown in New England. Drove myself to the hospital about 2 miles away and got lost. I was burning up. 106° temperature. They admitted me right away. My blood counts were unreal.
What was kind of cool though was I found out the CDC really does its job. They called me right away.