A Kentucky mom says her son was left unconscious after catching a rare and potentially deadly disease from a tick bite.
Kayla Oblisk said her 2-year-old son, Jackson, came down with a case of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, a rare infectious disease, after being bitten by a tick.
The family didn’t think much of it at first, but they started to worry when Jackson began running a fever. Oblisk took him to the doctor when she started to notice light pink spots all over his body. She said someone mentioned that Jackson might have Rocky Mountain spotted fever, but Oblisk said it was too rare to believe. The chance of getting bit by a tick with the bacterial disease is one in 20,000, according to WHAS, but that’s exactly what Jackson had.
"I'm so glad that as a parent I said to myself, 'Ya know something isn't right,' and followed it," Oblisk said."Just celebrating the fact that we are almost positive that he is going to be okay."
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