elimsprint
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Mine was in my belly button, total PITA to get out!
Dirty little S.O.B.
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Mine was in my belly button, total PITA to get out!
In my area they don't even send them to be tested anymore. "They all have lyme" was the last quote from the office...
Had my first experience with them while travelling back east two years ago. Picked a bunch up in Manitoba (Harley mostly but they got me too) and the area we were visiting in QC (Hemmingford) was loaded with them. The dog got a shot and they died on him but had to bite first. Got nailed walking to the john on mown grass at a truck stop in Manitoba on the way home. Little devils. Do not see them in our part of BC yet. Yet being the operative word. The medical community is very out of touch with this very debilitating disease.
Thats where I mine came from...loaded is an understatement
1963beretta
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- Vaughan, Ontario
I do the same....but I dont refer to it as my Jimmy. For me Johnson bar is more appropriate
elimsprint
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- Kelowna, BC
I just ordered one of these https://canlyme.com/product/tick-removal-kit/ and helps support Canadian Lyme disease org.
I've already found 6 on me this year, none embedded yet thank goodness. K9 Advantix II seems to be working on the dogs, so far.
I've already found 6 on me this year, none embedded yet thank goodness. K9 Advantix II seems to be working on the dogs, so far.
We carried lots of strike any where matches when I was a kid....70 years ago...to kill wood ticks after removing them from your skin ...on one field trip from school in early May I removed and burnt 76 ticks (none were stuck into my skin....you could feel them crawling around.) I of course soon ran out of matches and had to borrow from the other kids..then had to resort to crushing them between two rocks .
This was in early spring when the leaves were just coming out .
I was what was called a "tick magnet"....still am....
This was 40 miles north of Ft. Frances .
When I moved to Dryden in 1959 was pleased to not find any ticks around Dryden ....but that changed soon after the highway from Dryden to Ft.Frances was built about 35 years ago . Now I try to stay out of the bush and long grass(dead) that time of year.
cdn1canhunt
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- southwestern ontario
I went shopping, got me some permethrin. Treating all my turkey gear this weekend. Effin hate ticks and seems every year they get worse!
elimsprint
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- Kelowna, BC
good one, lol.
https://sites.newpaltz.edu/ticktalk/social-attitudes/story-by-smaranda-dumitru/
Lyme Disease on Plum Island: Fringe Conspiracy Theory or Government Cover-up?
By Smaranda Dumitru
As an animal disease center Plum Island has been the focus of many dark government conspiracies, from top secret biological weapon experimentation during the Cold War to the working ground for Nazi scientists recruited after World War II.
Perhaps scientific experimentation mixed with government classification is just a hotbed for saucy conspiracies, or maybe there is more to Plum Island than we suspect.
A more recent theory is that Lyme disease escaped from Plum Island, which may be the most plausible conspiracy theory yet. The theory went mainstream in 2004 with Michael C. Carroll’s book, Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government’s Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory.
Plum Island is located off the coast of Long Island, New York. It was used as a military base during the Spanish-American war and in 1954 was turned into a government animal disease center.The center was established to study foot-and-mouth disease in cattle, a highly contagious disease that is rare in humans but can ravage farms and the livestock industry.
While the center was run by the United States Department of Agriculture, in 2002 during talks of selling the island it was transferred to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
The reason some believe Lyme disease escaped Plum Island is because the island is located just a few miles off the coast of Lyme, Connecticut, which is where the first outbreak of Lyme was observed in 1975. While scientists say that all animals on the island are killed to prevent the possible spread of diseases, conspiracy theorists argue that birds regularly fly between the island and the mainland and thus are able to spread any diseases they may pick up. .....
Lyme Disease on Plum Island: Fringe Conspiracy Theory or Government Cover-up?
By Smaranda Dumitru
As an animal disease center Plum Island has been the focus of many dark government conspiracies, from top secret biological weapon experimentation during the Cold War to the working ground for Nazi scientists recruited after World War II.
Perhaps scientific experimentation mixed with government classification is just a hotbed for saucy conspiracies, or maybe there is more to Plum Island than we suspect.
A more recent theory is that Lyme disease escaped from Plum Island, which may be the most plausible conspiracy theory yet. The theory went mainstream in 2004 with Michael C. Carroll’s book, Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government’s Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory.
Plum Island is located off the coast of Long Island, New York. It was used as a military base during the Spanish-American war and in 1954 was turned into a government animal disease center.The center was established to study foot-and-mouth disease in cattle, a highly contagious disease that is rare in humans but can ravage farms and the livestock industry.
While the center was run by the United States Department of Agriculture, in 2002 during talks of selling the island it was transferred to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
The reason some believe Lyme disease escaped Plum Island is because the island is located just a few miles off the coast of Lyme, Connecticut, which is where the first outbreak of Lyme was observed in 1975. While scientists say that all animals on the island are killed to prevent the possible spread of diseases, conspiracy theorists argue that birds regularly fly between the island and the mainland and thus are able to spread any diseases they may pick up. .....
While Lyme can affect wild animals, you can't catch it by eating them.......
Keep in mind that plenty of domestic livestock are subject to tick bites too....
I just was searching the CDC website and I was reading that in most cases ticks would need at least 36 to 48 hours of exposure to the host before transmission could be spread. Though I couldn't find the average length of time a tick normally would stay attached. Would anyone know?
Other than dramatically reducing the deer population, tick-proofing the mice who are the initial carriers may be the best method of reducing overall Lyme frequency.
Tick tubes: they contain permethrin treated cotton balls which the mice take back to their nests and these kill the ticks they contact on the mice.
Not cheap so make your own: ht tp://organicdailypost.com/make-tick-tubes/
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I have worked many years in the bush and unlike most geologists have never had a tick bite me.
I always wear good quality (5.11 mostly), light colored, polyester/cotton blend long sleeved shirts and long pants. The shirt is always tucked into my pants and the cuffs of my pants are bloused into my socks/boots. When I go through long grass I roll down my sleeves. I spray my shirt and pants with DEET but not on my skin.
I always wear a hat, usually a broad brim, canvas hat like a Tilly T3 that I spray with DEET.
I always wear good quality (5.11 mostly), light colored, polyester/cotton blend long sleeved shirts and long pants. The shirt is always tucked into my pants and the cuffs of my pants are bloused into my socks/boots. When I go through long grass I roll down my sleeves. I spray my shirt and pants with DEET but not on my skin.
I always wear a hat, usually a broad brim, canvas hat like a Tilly T3 that I spray with DEET.
I know that the time they stay attached if left undisturbed is measured in days, rather than hours. The good news (or, at least, the less-disgusting news...) is that they tend to crawl around on you for hours before they even try to bite; sightseeing, maybe? By checking myself at the end of my time afield, or maybe twice during the course of the day if outside for the entire time, I have managed to be bitten only one time, despite removing many hundreds from myself over the past few years. The one that bit was just barely beginning to do so, and was easily removed without incident.
I think in that respect we're lucky; the combination of slow-to-bite and slow-to-pass-infection once they do bite probably keeps Lyme disease from being a crippling epidemic among outdoors people.
I think in that respect we're lucky; the combination of slow-to-bite and slow-to-pass-infection once they do bite probably keeps Lyme disease from being a crippling epidemic among outdoors people.
