OT: Ticks and diseases

[Guest guest]

You got me interested in looking at my son's research on ticks and

thought I would share this because I did not read it in any of the

posts on ticks.

 

What are ticks?

Blood-sucking acarines

Second most important vector of infectious diseases:

Ehrlichia chaffeensis

Rickettsia rickettsii (Rocky Mountian Spotted Fever)

borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme Disease)

Borrelia lonestari (STARI - Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness)

Babesia

 

It also appears that difference species carry different infectious

diseases too, HME, Cattle Fever and a few more.

Female ticks have 2,000 to 20,000 eggs per female.

 

I found the list very interesting as this is on the Ticks of Webb

County TX.

 

Barbara