"Ram Raghavan started researching ticks more than 16 years ago when he learned that a 7-year-old child died from Rocky Mountain spotted fever, a tick-borne disease. His daughter was 7 years old too, and he believed – and still does – that nobody should die from a tick bite."
https://www.kcur.org/environment-agriculture/2026-05-26/tick-season-bites-what-to-know

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