{"id":605809,"date":"2026-04-25T15:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/605809\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:23:07","slug":"what-to-do-if-youve-been-bitten-by-a-tick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/605809\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do if you\u2019ve been bitten by a tick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"YDK62ZLQWVCY7HPPI774YURUUU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">During <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2026\/04\/16\/tick-proof-yard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tick season<\/a>, which runs from April through September in the United States, people spend more time outdoors, and tiny, hard-to-spot tick nymphs are active, so your chances of an encounter are higher. Finding a tick on your skin is always worrying because all it takes is one bite and a small amount of saliva for it to transmit disease-causing pathogens (like<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2025\/08\/01\/lyme-disease-symptoms-justin-timberlake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Lyme disease<\/a>) to you, its host.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During tick season, which runs from April through September in the United States, people spend more time outdoors,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-605809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}