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Treating Tick Bites
Prevent Tick Bites
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Most cases of Lyme disease start with a bull’s eye rash at the site of the tick bite. The rash can occur from days to weeks (typically 7-10 days) after a tick bite.
If this rash appears, treatment with antibiotics is recommended.
It is thought that Lyme Disease can be prevented if the tick is removed within 24 hours of attachment.
The Deer Tick (also called black-legged tick) is between the size of a poppy seed and an apple seed.
The deer tick is found on a wide rage of hosts including mammals, birds and reptiles.
This tick can transmit Lyme disease to humans and animals during feeding; this occurs when the tick inserts its mouth parts into the skin of a host and slowly ingests the host’s blood.
This is a picture of a brown Wood Tick.
The Wood Tick (also called dog tick) can sometimes transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Colorado tick fever.
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