Horses of any age and size can be affected by tick paralysis.
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Ticks can cause tick paralysis and several parasite-borne diseases in humans.
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The primary treatment for tick paralysis is the careful administration of anti-tick serum.
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Tick paralysis results from injection of a toxin from tick salivary glands during a blood meal.
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Sporadic cases of tick paralysis, however, can occur all year, even in mid-winter.
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Although pain is not regarded as being a feature of tick paralysis animals would appear to be in severe distress.
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Dogs and cats on the East Coast of Australia commonly succumb to the tick paralysis caused by " Ixodes holocyclus ".
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Many cases of'infantile paralysis'( later known as poliomyelitis ) may well have been misdiagnosed and actually been cases of tick paralysis.
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Prevention of tick paralysis is mostly achieved by a combination of daily searching and the use of tick-repelling or tick-killing agents.
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"Dermacentor " ticks may also induce tick paralysis by elaboration of a neurotoxin that induces rapidly progressive flaccid quadriparesis similar to Guillain Barr?syndrome.
