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  • Emerging Tick-Borne Disease (11 Mar 2010 04:33)

    ... regions of the country. Missouri also has American dog ticks (Dermacentor variabilis), which carry Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, but again this is a less frequently encountered species. The most common tick is ...

  • It's little ol' me vs. the killer deer (5 Mar 2010 02:05)

    ... as headache, muscle soreness, fever, malaise and bull's-eye-patterned rash) as Lyme disease. The deer-borne Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a serious, even life-threatening, disease with more than 1,000 cases reported in the ...

  • Precautions can be taken to avoid contact with ticks (6 Mar 2010 04:37)

    ... from March to September in grasslands and at the edge of forests. They transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and cytauxzoonosis, a fatal blood parasite in cats, and they can cause paralysis if ...

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