Originally Posted by
LarrySellerz
Lyme disease is certainly a STD, it’s a very mysterious disease, lots of posters on chronic lyme forums claim to have gotten it from partners and never got bitten themselves. It’s not something they teach in medical school. Some people think Lyme is manmade (it was first described right outside a bio lab) and some think chronic Lyme is mostly psychosomatic. But it’s definitely an STD, it’s actually really similar to syphilis.
but yeah it was from a tick not a human.
"Some people" think the Earth is flat too. While we can't rule out the possibility, there's no credible evidence to support the statement that "Lyme disease is certainly an STD". There are some reports of sexual (or at least non-tick-mediated) transfer in animal models, but all that indicates is that it's
possible, not that it actually
happens in humans. It's far more likely that the folks who claim to have got it from their partners were bitten by a tick at some location where the bite wasn't visible.