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  2. What to Do If You Find a Tick on You - AOL

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    If the tick is already embedded in your skin, remove it as soon as possible. ... just keep an eye out for symptoms such as a rash (a bull's-eye-shaped rash is a classic sign of Lyme disease ...

  3. African tick bite fever - Wikipedia

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    African tick bite fever (ATBF) is a bacterial infection spread by the bite of a tick. [1] Symptoms may include fever, headache, muscle pain, and a rash. [1] At the site of the bite there is typically a red skin sore with a dark center. [1] The onset of symptoms usually occurs 4–10 days after the bite. [4]

  4. How to Remove a Tick Head From Your Skin—the Right Way - AOL

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    Spread your dog’s fur, and grasp the tick as close to the skin as possible using fine-point tweezers or tick-removal hook. Very gently, pull straight upward, in a slow, steady motion. Dispose of ...

  5. Ticks and Lyme disease emerge for 2024 season: How to ... - AOL

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    Anaplasmosis is an uncommon bacterial infection spread by ticks that can cause flu-like symptoms and babesiosis is a rare disease caused by a parasite spread by ticks that can also cause flu-like ...

  6. Lyme disease - Wikipedia

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    Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is a tick-borne disease caused by species of Borrelia bacteria, transmitted by blood-feeding ticks in the genus Ixodes. [4] [9] [10] The most common sign of infection is an expanding red rash, known as erythema migrans (EM), which appears at the site of the tick bite about a week afterwards. [1]

  7. Southern tick-associated rash illness - Wikipedia

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    Southern tick-associated rash illness (STARI) is an emerging infectious disease related to Lyme disease that occurs in southeastern and south-central United States. It is spread by tick bites and it was hypothesized that the illness was caused by the bacteria Borrelia lonestari. However, there is insufficient evidence to declare this Borrelia ...

  8. Most tick bites go unnoticed. Here's how to identify and ...

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    The lone star tick can transmit Heartland virus and Southern tick-associated rash illness. It can also cause alpha-gal syndrome, which causes an allergy to red meat , TODAY.com explained previously.

  9. Rickettsia parkeri - Wikipedia

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    R. parkeri causes mild spotted fever disease in humans, whose most common signs and symptoms are fever, an eschar at the site of tick attachment, rash, headache, and muscle aches. Doxycycline is the most common drug used to reduce the symptoms associated with disease.