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Offline Steelbanger

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Mild weather = Ticks
« on: November 30, 2006, 10:44:05 PM »
Although I carefully check for ticks after I come home every day, I found one attached to my leg yesterday. Pulled it out and applied alcohol to the area and will now watch for any type of reaction which would indicate Lyme Disease. A friend also had a tick a few days ago and he found another yesterday. Anyone else getting ticks? I suspect that I am bringing them into the house on my clothes so now, except for my coat, everything goes straight into the wash machine when I get home.  With this upcoming change in the weather I hope our tick problem will be gone for the winter. We never had these problems back in the good old days.
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Re: Mild weather = Ticks
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2006, 02:35:31 AM »
I'm from Jefferson Co, rarely do I come across a tick.  However, I work in Greene Co, and that area is so chuck full of ticks its not even funny.
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Re: Mild weather = Ticks
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2006, 05:30:12 AM »
Lyme disease is nothing to be taken lightly, waiting for symtoms to appear may be too late as the "bulleye" rash only happens in 70-80% of victums, not to mention the many other infections that ticks carry.

Whenever I get a tick, I take it to my doctor and have em check it to see it it's carrying anything to be concerned about, so far we've been lucky, but I have friends that weren't and they have suffered for years with Lyme disease and its after affects.

Tim

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/ld_humandisease_symptoms.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick-borne_disease
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Re: Mild weather = Ticks
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2007, 10:22:42 AM »
I've never seen ticks like I saw this year...

First Saturday of rifle season = 22, yes, 22 ticks on me!  I sat at my Dad's table for lunch and picked them off and smashed them with a spoon.  What's funny is that nearly all were found on my camo pants, very few on my upper body.  My brother found 7 or 8 on himself and only a few more on some of the other hunter in our party.  I walked through the same exact stuff they did and I got 22?  I can't figure it out.  The last Saturday of rifle, I ONLY found about 15 on me.  I have never seen anything like it.  I attribute most of it to the warm weather we had in hunting season, but come on...22?
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