TICK PARALYSIS DUE TO THE BITE OF THE AMERICAN DOG TICK

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Until recently little attention had been paid to a type of ascending paralysis of the flaccid type caused by the bite of certain ticks. The disease has been observed in children and in the young of animals, especially sheep and dogs. Adult human beings and mature animals are rarely afflicted. The literature contains several excellent works on the condition from which the symptoms and the course of the disease in man can be studied.1Premonitory symptoms such as paresthesias, pain in the legs, dizziness, restlessness and general malaise may or may not be present. They may precede the paralysis by several days. The onset of the paralysis is characterized by its sudden appearance and rapid progress. Muscular weakness and asynergia appear first, followed in a few hours by more or less complete flaccid paralysis beginning in the lower extremities and extending upward, involving the arms and the neck. Speech

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