My experience with tick bite fever

 I had promised to write everyday on my safari but turns out I couldn't do it. I fell ill. I was bit so much by ticks that my body went through horrible experiences. I had nasty headaches, chills, loss of appetite, fever, swollen lymph nodes, amongst other little uncomforts. This ordeal went on for something close to a week. I firstly (still do) suspected that I had been bit by a tsetse fly. Senior staff who work in this safari dismissed this insinuation, claiming that we do not have tsetse in the area, only horse flies (which bite as well). However, some knowledgeable people on a WhatsApp chat group I asked confirmed records of tsetse in Selous/Chegutu areas. Others confirm to eye seeing them in Chinhoyi! People entertain the idea that in Zimbabwe tsetse have now been restricted to the Zambezi valley area. Since I am no expert, I ain't gonna say I know something on the matter. But I felt the same symptoms as one bit by them. The reason why I now feel less convinced as each day passes by is that the symptoms are fading and the lump that had formed behind my knee on the affected area is also no longer painful and seem to be dissolving. If it was tsetse, medical notes on the internet sy the virus should be attacking my nervous system and brains by now. Now thats scary. So my mind sincerely now want to believe I was got by ticks. These left itchy bumps which I scratched madly until they bled. I've wounded myself in the process.

Now you don't need telling twice that one need to be very careful when experiencing the outdoors. You just might end up going through something life threatening if we dont take precautions. 

My ankle is swollen like a ballon here on one of the site where I was bit.

Now there's a horsefly

I had to take a closer look 

Reddish sore on my thigh which would turn into two open painful wounds.