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Dr. Steven Machtinger answered

Infectious disease: How about rocky mountain spotted fever & lyme disease from tic bites? Or meningitis from viruses transmitted by the bites of mosquitos? Or everyone's favorite, malaria, also transmitted by mosquito bites, but caused by a spirochete, a kind of bacteria, not a virus.

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Answered 1/2/2018

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A member asked:

What are some of the more strange symptoms of bug bites?

A doctor has provided 1 answer

Dr. Steven Machtinger answered

Dr Carter agreed

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