Originally Posted by mom-6
Could this also be the source of a medically resistant (possibly staph) infection? If so, then that may be what had me in the hospital back in March. It seemed to have been a case of athlete's foot gone haywire, but I had also been doing burn piles in the woods and I know I had gotten into some serious thorns, and had a dirt daubber sting, don't recall any ticks, but that's not to say they weren't there too. SE Texas is in the area shaded on your map...
MRSA is the methycillan resistant staph infection. Nothing to do with the tick illnesses. It's also very scary though.