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Y'all better hope the M.D. you select is wary and cognizant of the tick borne diseases. There is one M.D. in this area that worked the ER for years and now has a practice in the area that is always on the lookout for the tick borne diseases. He was confronted with several cases with RMSF in the later stages and two that passed away within hours of presentation. The ones that were lost had been seen by physicians that missed the disease entirely. If you get bitten by a tick and get sick, this is part of the history that is quite important to relay to your attending physician. Even if you handle a tick and get the blood on your fingers, the disease can be transmitted. A tick can pass one of the diseases within twenty minutes after biting the victim. Common thought until about a year ago was the tick had to be in contact for four hours or more. Not anymore, that has been proven to be a fallacy.