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If you spend time outdoors or have pets that go outdoors, you need to beware of ticks. Ticks are small bloodsucking bugs. Many species transmit diseases to animals and people. Some of the diseases you can get from a tick bite are Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia.
Some ticks are so small that they can be difficult to see. Ticks may get on you if you walk through areas where they live, such as tall grass, leaf litter or shrubs.
Tick-borne diseases occur worldwide, including in your own backyard. To help protect yourself and your family, you should
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Flea Free - Offering a line of natural flea, tick, mosquito, and biting fly control products.
Tick Bites - Information about ticks and tick-borne diseases from Medline Plus.
eMedicine Health - Bites and Stings - Collection of consumer health information on causes, symptoms, and medical advice relating to bee and wasp stings, insect and spider bites, water animal bites and stings, land mammal and human bites, snake bites, and tick bites.
Don't Let the Bugs Bite - Bites and stings from insects, including spiders, ticks, mites, mosquitoes, flies, fleas, ants, bees, and wasps, are common in children. Know how to prevent and treat common ones, and when to not over react.
InteliHealth: Tick Bite - Factsheet with brief discussions on tick-borne diseases.
MedlinePlus: Tick Bites - Directory of factsheets, news reports, and articles concerning tick and insect bites and the disease they carry.
Babesiosis - Detailed article from eMedicine.com about this intraerythrocytic parasitic infection caused by protozoa of the genus Babesia and transmitted through the bite of the Ixodes tick.
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Survive Outdoors - Large informational website covering topics like poison ivy, ticks, heat exhaustion, spider bites, and the psychology of survival.