Survivor of near-fatal tick bite has a lesson for summer

[Guest Nicole]

Waverly, Ohio (CNN)On the eve of Memorial Day weekend, Jennifer Slone wants you to know that bug bites are more than just itchy. They can be deadly.

And they're pretty easy to avoid.

For two weeks last summer, Slone, a librarian from Waverly, Ohio, languished in the hospital as doctors struggled to get her fever down from over 104 degrees. She developed meningitis. Her liver was suffering. She became septic, an infection raging through her bloodstream. She needed three blood transfusions.

Slone had ehrlichiosis, a bacterial infection from a tick bite.

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