Tick and Lyme Disease Awareness

257Wby said:
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Interesting. I see that the wood tick is also known as the American dog tick, which was reported, within the past couple years, to be a possible carrier of the bacteria that causes Lyme Disease.

That slide indicates that the American dog tick aka wood tick, cannot carry that bacteria. I am going to research this a bit more, as I no longer recall where I learned that the dog tick could also cause Lyme. Perhaps that information was incorrect.

Doug
 
"Hardiness." That's the term I would use to describe ticks. Not just the ones that survive being hit firmly with a hammer, but the two I found crawling out of the washing machine after it had run a full cycle.

We went from being "Tickville," also, to not finding a single tick this year on our clothes and persons. The difference, it seems, has been UltraShield EX. Incidentally, they are more prevalent than ever.
 
Doug said:
Interesting. I see that the wood tick is also known as the American dog tick, which was reported, within the past couple years, to be a possible carrier of the bacteria that causes Lyme Disease.

That slide indicates that the American dog tick aka wood tick, cannot carry that bacteria. I am going to research this a bit more, as I no longer recall where I learned that the dog tick could also cause Lyme. Perhaps that information was incorrect.

Doug
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Nova Scotia says only the Black leg carries the Bacteria. I get those buggers right up to my door, and I'm not even in a wooded area.

https://novascotia.ca/dhw/CDPC/lyme.asp
 
John Y Cannuck said:
Previously in this thread I mentioned that Ortho ant spray was .05% Permethrin, apparently that has changed, as the stuff I got today is half that. Just not strong enough for ticks.
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I am looking at a bottle of Wilson Ant Out, it contains 0.25% (not .025%) Permethrin. Why would Ortho be 10 fold more dilute in the active ingredient. Could you check the Ortho contents once more and confirm the percentage. Thanks.
 
Two of my buddies in the Kingston area have Lyme Disease. Most of my hunting buddies have had ticks embedded in their skin, and got the Doxycycline in time. I've had at least half a dozen of these, and countless others on my skin but not burrowed in yet. Kind of makes a person forget about the mosquitoes, black flies, and deer flies................:rolleyes:

Doug
 
Brother in law in the Kingston area had blood markers for Lyme and has begun antibiotics. Second time in a few years he’s had to. Kingston area is clearly a major hot spot.
 
The maps show the reported distribution of ticks and the bacteria in Canada. Note in particular:

Nova Scotia and southern New Brunswick
Eastern Townships, Montreal, Ottawa, Kingston triangle
GTA and Niagara
Southern Manitoba
Southern BC Interior and Vancouver Island

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/lyme-disease/risk-lyme-disease.html#map

Over half our population exposed? That's just a guess. Three of the largest concentrations are in our three most populous provinces. One thing is for sure. I have been following the mapping for years, and the problem continues to spread.
 
That Ontario map is woefully inadequate. I got Lyme in Grey County Ontario in 1999 and that area isn't even marked as a risk area. I know of 3 girls who got it up the Bruce Peninsula and it isn't marked as a risk area. Lyme is far more widespread than they admit. The Grey Bruce Health Unit boasts that there has never been a case of Lyme reported in their area. That is because you have to go out of the area to get it diagnosed.
 
I had it 5 years ago and was sick as hell until I was diagnosed and treated, worst 3 months of my life.
Couldn't think straight and my joints felt like broken glass, thought I was getting Alzheimer's.

I'm in Prince Edward County and work in Belleville, my family doc says he used to see 1 case a year and mostly snow birds coming home in the spring.
Now he sees 15 - 20 cases a year and numbers climbing steadily every year .... and that's just 1 family GP.

Protect yourselves out there, it's scary once you've got it.
 
theDuck said:
That Ontario map is woefully inadequate. I got Lyme in Grey County Ontario in 1999 and that area isn't even marked as a risk area. I know of 3 girls who got it up the Bruce Peninsula and it isn't marked as a risk area. Lyme is far more widespread than they admit. The Grey Bruce Health Unit boasts that there has never been a case of Lyme reported in their area. That is because you have to go out of the area to get it diagnosed.
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I agree with everything you say. But accurate diagnosis, treatment, and reporting of Lyme disease is still problematic. Just a hunch, but these problems were likely even worse in 1999.
 
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