Tick Bite

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Main Symptoms

• A tick (small brown bug) is attached to the skin.
• A tick recently was removed from the skin.
• The wood tick (dog tick) is the size of a watermelon seed and can sometimes transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Colorado tick fever.
• The deer tick is between the size of a poppy seed (pin head) and an apple seed, and can sometimes transmit Lyme disease.
• The bite is painless and doesn't itch; so ticks may go unnoticed for a few days.
• Ticks eventually fall off on their own after sucking blood for 3 to 6 days.

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• Not a tick bite, see INSECT BITE.