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what have you put on your kids
Notes:
Encourage patients to wear long sleeves and pants tucked into socks
Ticks do not fly, they crawl
They are attracted to sources of blood meals through detection of the hosts carbon dioxide and body heat by Haller’s organs.--located near their first pair of legs. Ticks poise on hind legs sniffing at hosts awaitng to crawl on board.