What Types of Diseases Do Ticks Transmit?
Ticks are hosts to a variety of life-threatening organisms that lead to many diseases, the most widely known of which is Lyme disease. Other diseases that ticks are capable of transferring to humans include: • Anaplasmosis, which causes headaches, fever, chills, and muscle aches that can be confused with common diseases such as the flu. • Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which causes fever, nausea, vomiting, muscle pain, lack of appetite and severe headache, and may later progress to rash, abdominal pain, joint pain and diarrhea. • Mediterranean spotted fever • Babesiosis (Texas fever) • Ehrlichiosis (primarily transmitted by the lone star tick), which causes fever, headache, fatigue, muscle aches, joint pains, confusion, cough, diarrhea, vomiting and occasionally rash. • Tularemia • Colorado tick fever • Powassan (a form of encephalitis) • Emerging diseases such as Rickettsia parkeri infection “The illnesses associated with these diseases can vary from mild symptoms treated at home, to s
