Table 3.

Third category of biological hazards at the workplace-tick, flea, or mite bite

Occupations	Tick, flea, or mite bite	Diseases
Farmer and rancher, farmworker, forester, groundskeeper, highway maintenance, hunter and trapper, landscaper, logging worker, rail track maintenance	Working in tick-infested area in North America	Babesiosis, Colorado tick fever, ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, Powassan virus encephalitis, relapsing fever, Rocky mountain spotted fever, Southern Tick Associated Rash Illness (STARI), tick paralysis, tularemia
Building cleaning worker, pest control worker	Working in buildings infested with fleas or mites of rodents	Murine typhus, plague, rickettsialpox
Hunter and trapper, laborer	Working in mite-infested area of central, eastern, or southeast Asia	Scrub typhus

Note. From the webpage of Haz-map: http://www.haz-map.com/infect.htm. Reproduced with permission.