It usually starts when bacteria get into a break in the skin, such as a cut, scratch or insect bite.
She didn't tell me about the insect bite until I saw her in the hospital.
After a week of sickness caused by an insect bite, he died on August 30, 1943.
A recent insect bite, around the same sort of time, on the left hand.
Indeed, I felt hot all over, and every tiny insect bite which I'd suffered began to make itself known.
Certainly she didn't die of anaphylactic shock from an insect bite.
Bacteria can enter the body through a cut, scratch, insect bite, or other skin injury.
Three As if that tiny insect bite had been an omen, things began to go wrong, starting with the weather.
"I don't see anything that looks like an insect bite, do you?"
He looked at the door again, like a man who couldn't help himself from rubbing at an insect bite.