The number of people with Lyme disease has been growing steadily and government health officials are focused on creating awareness of the disease and how to protect yourself. Lyme disease is usually contracted through an infected deer tick and many people who are bitten don’t show any symptoms right away. It can take from weeks […]
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It now appears as though a 50-year-old Kansas man who died last year succumbed to a new type of virus. The man became infected after being bitten by a tick. Reports indicate the man was relatively healthy before being infected. He had been working on the property of his home before discovering a few tick bites […]
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New research shows that the deadly Rocky Mountain spotted fever can be transmitted in just ten minutes — far faster than previously thought. Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is a rickettsial disease, meaning it’s carried and spread by ticks. RMSF symptoms include rash, fever, headache, abdominal pain, vomiting, and muscle pain. An RMSF infection can […]
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Lyme disease is a bacterial illness that is spread by the borrelia burgdorferi bacteria in tick insect bites. Once infected, the victim will suffer the consequences in multiple stages that stretch from the first bite to the spread of Lyme antibodies within the blood, and these telltale symptoms.
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