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Tick removal procedure

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By compressing the mouthparts (and not the body of the tick) one avoids squeezing more allergens, toxins, and infectious micro-organisms into the host. Illustration by Commonsource (2005). (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.)