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Health Encyclopedia: Lyme Disease And Related Tick Borne Infections Ehrlichiosis

Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis (HGA)

In addition to Lyme disease, I. scapularis deer ticks can carry other types of infections that cause disease in humans. Human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA) is another illness spread by the deer tick. (HGA was formerly called human granulocytic ehrlichiosis. Another type of ehrlichiosis, human monocytic ehrlichiosis, is carried by a different type of tick.)

Typical HGA symptoms appear very suddenly within 4 - 14 days of being bitten by an infected tick. Sympt...

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Shingles and Chickenpox (Varicella-Zoster Virus): Introduction

...shingles.Other Herpes VirusesThe varicella-zoster virus belongs to a group of herpes viruses that includes eight human viruses (it also includes animal viruses as well). Herpes viruses are similar... Read more »

High Blood Pressure: Causes

...development in the heart.Experts believed that this system evolved millions of years ago to protect early humans during drought or stress by retaining salt and water and narrowing blood vessels to... Read more »

Immunizations: Highlights

...be given when the child is 12 - 15 months old followed by the second dose between 4 - 6 years of age.Human Papilloma VirusHuman papilloma virus, or HPV, is a sexually transmitted disease that... Read more »

Heart Attack and Acute Coronary Syndrome

The heart is the human body's hardest working organ. Throughout life it continuously pumps blood enriched with oxygen and vital nutrients through a network of arteries to all parts of the... Read more »

Immunizations: Other Vaccinations

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