1.   Once there, ticks do not bite like a horsefly or use a syringe like a mosquito.

2.   The place was dirty, children were constantly bitten by ticks, the curtains were closed.

3.   The type of tick that carries the virus, hyaloma marginata, most often attacks livestock, but Swanepoel said the ticks sometimes bite humans.

4.   When an infected tick bites a person and begins feeding, it can transmit the bacteria.

5.   A man and a woman living in villages in the Stavropol region died from Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever after being bitten by ticks, regional health officials said.

6.   The fly settles in wounds or tick bites and eats away at the flesh of its hosts.