[ashurbanipal]

the tick has to stay attached for 24 hours in the first place. If you let a tick stay on you for 24 hours, you have a lot of other issues beyond Lyme.

[jmnicolas]

Are you sure about the 24 hours thing ? From memory it all depends on the tick.

And if you remove it in a non optimal way you can still be contaminated.

On French websites you can still find the wrong advice to use ether to make the tick sleep. In fact it makes it sick and it can throw up in your bloodstream thus contaminating you.