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Tomasz Klejdysz / Getty Images Kidney Transplant Left This Patient With a Deadly Tick Infection
Contracting ehrlichiosis from a transplant can conceivably happen, because it just did, but is extraordinarily rare.
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Ranchers in Colorado (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images) Freaky Tick Bites Make Farmers Allergic to Their Own Farm Animals
The Lone Star ticks can transmit Alpha-gal Syndrome, a life-threatening allergy to meat and other animal byproducts.