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If you're a big game hunter, you've probably found the winter tick on your tagged animal. This tick, though parasitic, isn't a transmitter of human illness.
Photo: Matt Pound, USDA-ARS
http://www.idph.state.il.us/envhealth/pccommonticks.htm