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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had a tiny deer tick on my back.  I thought it was a mole that I accidentally scraped, so I left it alone for a couple of days until I saw a huge rash in the mirror. [/quote]

How would you have noticed the rash before noticing an engorged tick? Even the nymphs get HUGE when they are engorged.[/quote]

Are you sure you're not confusing a deer tick with a dog tick?  The engorged tick on my back was tiny. [/quote]

Yes, absolutely sure. I've had ticks (grew up in PA) and most recently, my DD had an engorged deer tick that I sent to a lab for testing, so there is absolutely no question that I know exactly what they look like and that the most recent (huge when engorged, though a nymph) was a deer tick, confirmed by lab as [i]Ixodes scapularis[/i] in nymphal stage. It was bigger than an apple seed when engorged -- no chance of missing it.[/quote]

Lots of people get Lyme disease because an engorged deer tick was unnoticeable.  That's why there's an epidemic.[/quote]

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