5 tick bite diseases, symptoms: Lyme, Rocky Mountain spotted fever - Insider

  • People are most susceptible to tick-borne infections during the summer, when they spend time outdoors.
  • Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne disease, but other tick-borne diseases are on the rise.
  • If you have symptoms after getting a tick bite, you should see your doctor.

Each year as temperatures warm up, ticks re-emerge with a hankering for blood. 

When ticks burrow into prey, they can feast for days, allowing ample time for diseases to be passed from tick to human. They can also transmit more than one disease at a time.

Due in part to climate change, tick-borne diseases are on the rise, with a 25% increase in cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2001 to 2019.  

Ticks can't fly or jump; rather, they crawl up and onto their prey. Ticks often cling to grasses or shrubs (but not trees) and scurry onto you as you brush past them.

Here are the most common tick-borne diseases, and the symptoms to watch out for:

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