I assume that people don’t typically swallow ticks; but it would be depressingly unsurprising if one, once swallowed, could survive long enough to complete an infectious feeding if it managed to grab hold of a handy bit of internal mucous membrane during a lull in peristalsis.
By way of reference here are some ticks that could probably beat up tardigrades for their lunch money; while unprotected in deep space.
Normally scanning electron microscopy is not an option for live specimen observation because it involves putting the sample in a vacuum chamber and bombarding it with an electron beam. In tick land; 30 minutes of hard vacuum and electron beam bombardment just fuels your seething rage.
A merely ■■■■■ environment, without even any radiation, is probably not a quick kill.
