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3-year-old Pennsylvania boy contracts rare illness from tick bite

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HARVEYS LAKE, Pa. - Fifteen minutes. That’s all it took to transmit a rare, dangerous and debilitating tick-borne disease that seriously sickened an energetic, witty and generally healthy 3-year-old Pennsylvania boy.Jamie Simoson’s motherly intuition pushed her to seek further medical treatment for something her youngest son’s pediatrician assured her was a virus that needed to run its course.

However, it was something she later learned required weeks of medical care and came with the possibility of lifelong effects.HOW TO WATCH FOX WEATHER ON YOUR TVJonny Simoson is one of the most energetic 3-year-olds you will meet, his mother said.

As the youngest of three in the family, his mom and dad joke that if he were first, he'd be an only child.(Jamie Simoson) Jonny Simoson was swimming in a neighbor’s pool on June 15 when his mom noticed a small speck on his right shoulder blade.

It was a tick smaller than a pen point."It was not embedded. It was not engorged. I easily removed it with a pair of tweezers, and it was still alive," Simoson said. "He didn't necessarily have any marks on his back shoulder until a few days later; there was just a tiny red bump.

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