6-year-old Merritt boy paralyzed by tick bite, father urges caution
A Merritt, B.C., father is urging parents to be on the lookout for ticks as the weather warms up, after his six-year-old son was partially paralyzed after a tick bite last week.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/merritt-child-tick-paralysis-9.7131222?cmp=rss

One thing I learned drawing this #sketch of #TheTick is that you really have to get his muscles in the right place. Drawing him is almost like drawing a nude model... a completely disproportional nude model that is.

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A little monster with a raging metabolism, twelve times faster than the blink of an eye. #wildlife

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Finding one #tick on your body is scary enough – tick-borne #diseases are serious – but what if you found more than 10 on yourself in just one month? That’s the plight of some #farmers as the threat of ticks and tick-borne diseases grows
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https://www.sflorg.com/2026/01/med01072601.html
Ticking time bomb: Some farmers report as many as 70 tick encounters over a 6-month period

Study reveals ticks are growing threat to health and livelihood of agricultural workers

NSW deputy coroner to decide if teen’s death was caused by meat allergy from tick bites

Jeremy Webb’s mother could not figure out why he would regularly get sick after eating dinner. She said…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/274399/

Early Release – Neoehrlichia mikurensis in Ticks and Tick-Bitten Persons, Sweden and Finland, 2008–2009 – Volume 31, Number 11—November 2025 – Emerging Infectious Diseases journal

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