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Tick bite

A bite from a bloodsucking, parasitic insect that punctures the skin with a sharp beak.

The tic burrows into the skin with its head.

Tick bites can carry serious illness, including Rocky Mountain spotted fever, other forms of tick typhus, and Lyme disease

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