What to do if you’ve been bitten by a tick

During tick season, which runs from April through September in the United States, people spend more time outdoors, and tiny, hard-to-spot tick nymphs are active, so your chances of an encounter are higher. Finding a tick on your skin is always worrying because all it takes is one bite and a small amount of saliva for it to transmit disease-causing pathogens (like Lyme disease) to you, its host.