An Engorged Deer Tick (IMAGE)

NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

An Engorged Deer Tick

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This is an engorged deer tick, or Ixodes scapularis, a species of tick that can transmit Lyme disease.

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NIAID

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