Tick bite consequences

More than 800 tick species have been reported world-wide however only about 30 tick species feed on hu-mans [1]. Two classes of tick are responsible for disease in humans, hard ticks of Ixodidae’s family (more com-mon, harder to remove and more likely to transmit dis-ease) and soft ticks of Argasidae’s family (more quickly transmission of pathogens) [2]. Ticks that typically live in grass, brush and wooded areas [3], are blood feed-ing external parasites of mammals, birds, and reptiles throughout the world. Tick bites consist in a seasonal event related to the spring and summer trips and to the increasing of outdoor activity that sun and warm weath-er allow, both for humans (especially children) and ticks [4]. A tick needs a blood meal from a host in order to molt, and to reproduce [5]. This feeding process con