While it feeds,
it injects a toxin that in a percentage of people causes paralysis. They reckon a good number of childhood deaths attributed to polio in Australia before the vaccine was introduced may well have been due to those fuckers.
Apparently all stems from the point where spiders and ticks split - most ticks lost their venom, but a few kept it.
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Apparently all stems from the point where spiders and ticks split - most ticks lost their venom, but a few kept it.