Tips about illness caused by Tick bites

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Chiggers

 

 
The American chigger is a mite and is a member of the spider family along with other
parasitic insects like ticks. Chiggers are red because that is their body color,
not because they suck blood. Their mouth parts are too small to penetrate deeply into our skin.
 
Chiggers have […]

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24Jul2008 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued
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Ticks, tick bites, RMSF and you, part 5

RMSF or Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is a bacterial disease (Rickettsia richettsii - named for Dr. Howard T. Ricketts who discovered it early in the 20th century) spread through the bite of the American Dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis), the wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni) or most commonly in the east the Lone Star tick (Amblyomma americanum).  […]

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Ticks, tick bites, lyme disease and you, part 4

Ixodes scapularis, known as the deer tick, is the arthropod vector for a bacteria called Borrelia burgdorferi.  B. burgdorferi is a spiral-shaped bacteria that infests deer and the white-footed deer mouse.  When this bacteria is transferred from the host animal to a human host the resulting disease is called Lyme Disease.
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Ticks, tick bites and you, part 3

You have probably heard of Lyme Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.  Both of these diseases are spread by tick bites from some of the 82 species found in the United States.  Did you know there are 8 other diseases that are spread by tick bites.    Below is a list of the diseases cause by tick bites […]

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Ticks, tick bites, and you. Part 2

My last post about ticks established that Ioxdidae or the hard tick family spread most diseases to humans.  The main culprits are called the Dog tick, Deer tick and Lone Star tick.  Ticks have 4 stages of life, egg, larvae, nymph and adult.  Each stage except egg requires the individual tick to eat a blood […]

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Ticks, tick bites and you.

My patients are understandably concerned when they are bitten by a tick.  Ticks are arthropods related to mites, spiders, and scorpions.  More than any other of their arthropod cousins, ticks are vectors (carriers) of diseases.
Understanding the life of a Tick.
There are two families of ticks.  Argasidae are soft ticks also called one-host ticks since they live on […]

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