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SHIFTHEADS: How Long You Actually Have After a Tick Bite
A tick bite symptom is easy to miss, and this segment lays out anaplasmosis, the tick-borne illness now showing up alongside Lyme disease and pushing stomach trouble into the list of warning signs.
Dr. Mitch Shulman walks through what actually happens after a tick attaches, why most of these infections need 24 to 48 hours on the body before transmission, and why removing it fast with tweezers still beats waiting to see what happens. He also covers when a pharmacist can prescribe treatment directly, and why photographing the tick for a site like eTick.ca can speed up identification.
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