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Article: Ticks May Fascinate Biologists, but the Blood Suckers Worry Health Officials.(tick-borne diseases)

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August 1, 2000
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The six-year-old girl was playing happily on a midsummer day when her fingers began to go numb. Soon she was staggering and falling. By the time her terrified parents rushed her to the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, she could barely stand or sit up. As the doctors searched for a cause, the little girl's speech became slurred, her breathing labored. Baffled by the spreading paralysis, the medical team prepared to put her on a respirator.

Then a pediatrician, recalling something she had learned in medical school, took a fine-tooth comb and examined the girl's scalp. Hidden in the long blonde hair was what she had suspected: a blood-engorged tick, indicating ...

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