Tick bites resemble other insect bites and can be mistaken for mosquito bites or hives. Unlike ant or other insect bites, however, tick bites are not fluid-filled, which can assist the diagnosis. Ticks typically latch on to the back of the neck, scalp, groin, and legs, and make only single bites; through multiple ticks may attach, once a tick bites, it burrows its head in the skin and does not bite a second time.

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