But, think about this for a moment, a tick can bite and suck the blood of many different hosts during it's lifetime and each of them (I would say 90% to 95% of them tend to be things like Deer or Squirrels (tree or ground squirrels) and we know that Ground Squirrels especially often carry bubonic Plague here in the U.S. which is why people are told not to feed or pet them so they won't be exposed to it through accidental bites from Ground squirrels.
So, I imagine Deer, Ground squirrels, possums, Raccoons (which also carry hydrophobia also) like coyotes and sometimes wolves do too.
So, you get this mix and match and then ticks are going to mate after feeding on all sorts of hosts that have four legs and often can't get the ticks off them until the ticks jump off themselves having had their fill of blood.
Then they go mate with another tick and this only spreads various kind of microbes as well.
So, from my point of view, anything that feeds on many different hosts in the course of a lifetime, of blood would likely condense many different diseases and these diseases and microbes would cross breed and create all sorts of different things likely we have never seen before.
So, I can see directly why Ticks would be a problem in the spread of unusual diseases. So, likely they might be as problematic as unusual flus like the one that killed more American soldiers than World War I did that killed 50 to 100 million people worldwide.
Spanish Flu - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic
The 1918 flu pandemic (January 1918 – December 1920) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza
virus. It infected 500 million people around the world, including
remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and resulted in the deaths of 50
to 100 million (
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