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Secrets behind Diseases Caused by a Tick Bite

Written by happycamper on June 24th, 2009

Do you plan go camping or hiking? Do you plan hunting tour or go fishing? Do you love mountaineering? Do you work in your backyard?

The summer is almost here and ticks are on the go.

As ticks are likely to be active during warmer month and increase diseases, we should make preparations to prevent a tick bite, Lyme symptoms and other sickness.

Very short list points to sickness caused by a tick bite - Tick-borne diseases:

• Anaplasmosis - a disease caused by a infected tick bite (most commonly – blacklegged tick).
• Ehrlichiosis is a disease that is spread by a tick bite, usually - the long star tick. Ehrlichiosis transmit a disease to and kill the white blood cells. Ehrlichiosis is transmitted throughout a tick bite.
  Rocky Mountain spotted fever is the most dangerous and most oftentimes experienced in the USA. The American dog tick and wood tick carry the bacterium that causes this disease. The disease is passed through the skin into the bloodstream after an infected tick bites you.  Other names of the disease: Tick Typhus, Tobia fever, Sao Paulo fever, Febre Maculosa, and Fiebre Manchada.
• Colorado Tick Fever is an acute viral virus transmitted by a tainted wood tick bite. It is also called Mountain tick fever, Mountain fever and American mountain fever.
• Tularemia is a severe infectious sickness. You can contract with Tularemia through and infected tick bite, horsefly or mosquito. Tularemia is deadly in about 5% of non-getting medical care or treatment cases, and in fewer than 1% of treated cases. It’s also called Deer-fly fever, Rabbit fever, Pahvant Valley plague, Ohara disease, Yatobyo, Lemming fever.
• Babesiosis is a malaria-like disease, a pathological process of red blood cells.  It is communicated through a tick bite. Animal hosts include cattle, sheep, deer, and dogs. It is also called Piroplasmosis.
• Tick Paralysis is the sole tick-borne disease that is not caused by an infectious organism. A tick attaching to the skin to feed on blood causes Tick Paralysis. Throughout the feeding process, the poison enters the bloodstream.
  Hard- and soft-bodied female ticks are believed to make a poison that can cause children paralysis.
• Relapsing Fever is a disease transmitted through louse or soft-bodied tick bite. The death rate for untreated Relapsing Fever ranges from 10 - 70%. 
  It is also called Tick-borne relapsing fever and Louse-borne relapsing fever.

Where can you find ticks?

You can find ticks on plants and on animals in low-lying brush in woods, hayfield, meadow pasture, grasslands, swamp, marshlands and at the seashore.

What is the food of ticks?

The food of ticks is the blood of birds and people. As you rub against bushes, plants and grass, the tick attaches you. Through a tick bite, it feeds itself.

Ticks move warm and moist locations as your head, neck, armpits, ankles, or groin.

How do ticks move?

Ticks may move slowly on the skin for up to one hour before biting you.

There are many sorts of ticks. Black legged-ticks or deer ticks (which carry Lyme disease bacteria) are commonly little, as the top of a pin size. Woodland and dog ticks are much bigger.

Wild birds and animals can carry ticks, similar to habitat animals and pets as dogs, horses, and cows.
Ticks may attach people from animals , leaves and branches. A squirrel can drop down a tick on grass, and you can be uncareful in examination ticks before treating the lawns.

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