Do ticks in America not carry encephalitis (like they do in central/eastern Europe)?Because that’s way more dangerous than Lyme disease. I find it weird that it isn’t mentioned at all, nor the vaccination against it.
I would go to the CDC to check but that’s been deleted. We’ve solved it by removing the webpage
https://www.cdc.gov/tick-borne-encephalitis/index.html
I’m kidding, but it certainly seems to be a thing that people should be aware of.
That being said I think the scary thing about Lyme disease is the symptoms aren’t crazy strong at the beginning, and easy to misattribute if you miss the tick. But if you don’t treat it early it can really fuck you up.
I got bit by a tick years ago when I was 16, right above my belt buckle. Had a generalized rash, and my doctor said it was because of an allergic reaction to my belt buckle and prescribed me steroid cream. Basically had to demand a Lyme test just in case and tested positive.
My 75 year old dad got a tick bite and ignored it for three days of fever over 101, no appetite, and severely weak before finally getting antibiotics.
He doesn’t believe in global warming.
Doesn’t believe in internal warming either
Ticks are one species that I hope go extinct. So gross.
Incorrect. There are MANY species of tick.
I’m up to 9 so far this year
Keep in mind that even after checking yourself after being in the out doors they may still be on your clothes or in your hair. Check yourself again the next day. It takes them awhile to burrow in
Also, if you have pets that go outside, such as a dog you take for walks, you need to check them even if they are on flea and tick prevention. Ticks are more than glad to hitchhike indoors on pets and then later decide to rehome themselves onto a human.
Mind you, they’re sometimes happy to burrow in even when they have hair around them. It really takes a friend and a comb to be sure.
OP, just copy paste the headline. There’s no need to retype it and mangle it to all hell.
Ben Edlund reportedly in shambles.
Isn’t there a theory that Lyme disease was created by the government on an island… And that it’s where all these ticks originally came from?
I don’t even recall whether it’s theory or historical fact.
I recognize that Congress has asked for the investigaton, but Congress is also run by low-grade morons.
"It turned out that the bacterium was circulating in wildlife long before Lyme disease became a known illness in humans. Ticks collected in 1945 from the eastern end of Long Island and mice collected in 1894 on Cape Cod were found to be infected with B. burgdorferi.
This means that B. burgdorferi already existed in wildlife on Long Island—neighbor to Plum Island—for nearly ten years and on Cape Cod for fifty years before the time period in question. And Ft. Terry, the predecessor to the Plum Island facility, wasn’t even activated by the Army Chemical Corps until 1952, noted Telford."
In response to your edit, there’s no evidence of that and there’s plenty of evidence that the bacteria existed in North America before humans.
The book you’re looking for is Lab 257 by Michael C Carroll. I started but never finished it.
No, there isn’t.
It’s neither.
Its definitely not fact. Its a naturally occurring disease which used to have a more geographically limited distribution.
I would make a “The Tick” joke but this is serious
I would make one and blame OP for their terrible capitalization
That’s New York Times style. Headline Has Every Major Word Capitalized. Subheading looks normal.
Well Then I Guess They Want People to Make Jokes About The Tick
Fuck me I just saw that.
Don’t try to remove them with spoons?
They make spoons specifically for removing ticks.
These work well even on tiny ticks. I got some when I was having trouble removing ticks around my cats’ eyelids. I didn’t want anything sharp or metal near their eyes.
Not trying to be funny, but would a plastic spoon also suffice? I’ve never had a tick before.
I bet with practice you could cut a notch in a spoon with a knife that would do the same thing
Had a friend tell me about using dental floss to wrap around as close to the skin as possible, tighten, and pull the tick off. Haven’t tried it, but seems like it might work
The notch is the useful part; it lets you lift the tick off your body without squeezing it. Skillful use of good tweezers does the same. (The ones on a Swiss army knife dont really work for this)
So what you’re saying is my dad held a smoldering match against my leg while I screamed for fun?
Or he didn’t know how to do it without that. The match-as-best-approach was conventional wisdom for a lot of people for a long time
