What is Ehrlichiosis (Lone Star tick) infection?
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Healthwise answered:Ehrlichiosis is an infectious disease that can be passed to humans by ticks. It causes fever, chills, headache (often severe), general ill feeling (malaise), nausea and vomiting, and a purple or red rash.
Symptoms usually start from 1 to 21 days (average of 7 days) after the tick bite. Ehrlichiosis is usually treated with prescription medicine.
The disease most frequently occurs in the southern and south-central United States, especially in Georgia, Missouri, and Oklahoma.
Ehrlichiosis is an infectious disease that can be passed to humans by ticks. It causes fever, chills, headache (often severe), general ill feeling (malaise), nausea and vomiting, and a purple or red rash. Symptoms usually start from 1 to 21 days... More
