Ticks

Adult Tick
The tick has its own place in the history of medicine when it was discovered to be the vector for Texas cattle fever. This established the the link between ticks, mammals, and the pathogen. That was in the late 1800's, but since then ticks have been linked to other diseases including Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Lyme disease, for a total of more than 60 different pathogens.

Ticks are not insects - rather they are in the same class as spiders, Arachnida. The different species are roughly divided in two with some having hard shells and others soft. Some species are so small that it is nearly impossible to detect them before they fill up on blood.

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