. >> reporter: molli hamilton suffered symptoms for offer a year before she realized. >> i thought i was dying. i couldn't function. i couldn't get out of bed. >> reporter: now molli takes an assortment of 35 pills per day as part of an antibiotic regimen. >> about a year and a half ago i had some kind of insect bite on my hand. but i didn't know then what a bulls-eye was to look for it. and my hands swelled up. >> reporter: one of the tail tell signs is this rash in the shape of a bulls-eye. >> and part of the reasons cases here have quadrupled isn't just because of the plentiful forest. it's also because of the size of the ticks. quite often people who have been bitten have no idea at all simply because they are so small. >> i pulled a tick off my husband a couple weeks ago. >> reporter: is that it right there? >> no. it's even smaller than that. >> reporter: mull li put it in a o -- molli put it in a bag. >> i don't know where it is. >> reporter: she is one inside of the community center. >> a good first step in bringing everybody together to discuss what the problem is and how we