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Ticks can be fairly large, about the size of a pencil eraser. They can also be so small that they are very hard to see. Ticks can cause a number of health conditions. Some of these can be serious.
Save the tick in a jar. Watch the person who was bitten carefully over the next week or two for indications of Lyme disease.
Increasingly severe headache which does not respond to medicine
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