Experts share how soon Lyme disease symptoms appear after a tick bite, plus how to safely remove one that’s latched on.
It’s never fun to encounter a spider, bed bug, or cockroach , but finding a creepy-crawly like a tick actually on you—or even worse, embedded in your flesh—might feel like next-level horror. That’s because tick bites are the primary cause of Lyme disease, which can cause a host of uncomfortable, but sometimes subtle symptoms, including weird rashes, fever, and joint pain.
Bottom line: You have about a 1% to 3% chance of developing Lyme after a tick bite, even in areas where it’s common. In fact, a 2017 study of more than 3,500 reports of tick bites found that only 5.2% of people who estimated the tick had been attached to them for four whole days or longer developed symptoms . Important to note, too, that Lyme isn’t the only tick-transmissible disease possible: Some can transfer Powassan virus disease much more quickly , although this one is pretty rare.
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