ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) – A Botetourt County man is sharing his experience with Ehrlichiosis, a tick-borne illness he said he had never heard of until a trip to the emergency room led to a diagnosis.
Butch Carter said he has already removed several ticks from his body this year and called it “a pretty brutal tick season,” including what he described as lone star ticks and deer ticks.
Carter said he is used to pulling ticks off after working outside and then going about his day feeling fine. But he said that changed in September, when he woke up feeling “really lousy,” with a fever and body aches…