Have more free time and have access to more untamed outdoor spaces where ticks live than the average person.
“If there is a rich and famous or class bias in this, it’s probably because they spend more time walking around.
In wooded parkland, more money to go out to those areas, or have big homes with these sorts of places,” he said.
Furthermore, many of these celebrities probably reside in the United States, where Lyme disease is notoriously common.
The physician continued: “As you’re walking along the ticks jump on your legs and crawl their way up.