A Lyme tick burrows into the skin and sucks blood from the host organism. In doing so it injects Borrelia burgdorfer spirochete, which causes Lyme disease, into the blood stream. A less known, however, harmful tick is the Rocky Mountain Wood Tick. This particular pest is capable of transmitting three very dangerous diseases to human hosts. They include tick paralysis caused by a toxic substance, tularemia, otherwise known as rabbit fever or deer fly fever, and the most dreaded, Rocky Mountain Spotted fever.
Bites are painless, however, they usually produce a severe allergic reaction.
Survivors of this reaction are often forced to cope with Chaga's Disease. This ailment causes the formation of clusters of red eruptions with central dots of blood to form on the skin. This is followed by itching and edema. Later symptoms include prolonged high fever,enlargement of the spleen, liver, and lymph nodes. The worst part of it is that symptoms can go undetected for as much as 20 years.