Does a human tick-borne disease exist in British Columbia?

Report on the first cases of "tick paralysis", a potentially lethal disease treatable by removing the tick. Follow-up paper by Todd: "Tick bite in British Columbia," Canad. med. Assoc. J., 2 (1912) 1118-1119. Unlike most other tick-borne diseases tick paralysis is not caused by an infectious organism, but by a neurotoxin produced in the tick's salivary gland.

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)