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Post by swimswithtrout on Apr 4, 2017 16:06:43 GMT -8
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daveg
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Post by daveg on Apr 4, 2017 20:00:46 GMT -8
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Post by bass on Apr 5, 2017 2:50:25 GMT -8
I spray Permithrin on the clothes/tent/etc., and deet on the skin. That's what I do too. I am very liberal with both and also very careful not to get the permithrin on my skin. I understand the skin absorbs the permithrin. I also treat my clothes after each washing. I know that is overkill but do it anyway.
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amaruq
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Post by amaruq on Apr 5, 2017 3:39:46 GMT -8
I understand the skin absorbs the permithrin. Oh? So one really only needs to treat it once a year or so? :-P
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Apr 5, 2017 4:31:30 GMT -8
My friend caught it early when she noticed the "bulls eye" bruising on her arm. That's often the first symptom. The classic "bullseye" rash only manifests in 70% of the cases. If you (used generally, not you-HungryJack) have mild flu symptoms, do you immediately think "Must be lyme disease?"
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Post by Coolkat on Apr 5, 2017 4:44:23 GMT -8
Now that is also a scary article about how crippling the disease can be if not caught in time. Wow!
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Post by leafwalker on Apr 8, 2017 17:38:03 GMT -8
I can see the concept thinking back to bis g acorn harvests here (NE MO) and the number of ticks a year later. The last two years the ticks haven't been as much of a problem and there hasn't been making acorns. Not many acorns this past fall/winter bodes well here. Although, here it is early April and my wife has found two ticks on her pants after a hike (we have been on many day hikes this year). Usually we don't worry about them until the end of May for about six weeks. But, if those two are as bad as it gets that would be great.
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Post by autumnmist on Apr 8, 2017 18:12:06 GMT -8
daveg , thanks for that article, unsettling as it may be. I was completely unaware of how close they had come to my area.
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Post by stealthytomato on Apr 9, 2017 6:32:40 GMT -8
I'd rather face a rattlesnake than ticks!
I just caught part of an interview on public radio about a Lyme epidemic, Wow, scary stuff.
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Post by Coolkat on Apr 9, 2017 7:04:50 GMT -8
Wow and we thought lyme disease was bad. "The more we look, in a sense, the more we find," says Felicia Keesing, an ecologist at Bard College in upstate New York. "Around here, there's anaplasmosis, babesiosis and a bacterium related to Lyme, which causes similar symptoms."
And that's just in the Northeast.
In the Midwest, you can find Heartland virus, a new Lyme-like disease and Bourbon virus — which is thought to be spread by ticks but hasn't been proven yet. In the South, there's Southern tick-associated rash illness. Out west, there's a new type of spotted fever. And across a big swath of the country, there's a disease called ehrlichiosis.
Most of these diseases are still rare. But one is especially worrying. "It's a scary one," Keesing says.
"Our local tick — this blacklegged tick — occasionally carries a deadly virus that's called Powassan virus," says Rick Ostfeld, a disease ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y. NPR
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Post by autumnmist on Apr 9, 2017 8:10:41 GMT -8
Worry wart that I am, I woke up this morning planning ways to protect myself just in my yard. I was wondering though, other than legs and arms, where have others been bitten? I'm not trying to be personal or pry, just wondering which areas of the body need the most protection. I would assume that feet and legs are the most vulnerable but arms as since they're often bare. What about faces and necks? Has anyone been bitten there?
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Post by hikerchick395 on Apr 9, 2017 8:39:49 GMT -8
In the 80's I brought a deer tick home from the Sierra. It was buried in the back of my head and I discovered it washing my hair. Quite awhile later I was having to see a doctor...I had high blood pressure and lumps in my neck. After several visits to the doctor and before the next step of having a biopsy on my lumps, I was first sent to a ear, nose and throat specialist who put me on antibiotics. That seemed to be the cure and I later put two and two together that whatever I had was caused by the tick.
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Post by swmtnbackpacker on Apr 9, 2017 9:12:02 GMT -8
Time to spray the gear with permethrin. Best be safe than sorry ....without the full biohazard suit.
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Post by dayhiker on Apr 9, 2017 10:24:51 GMT -8
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Post by reuben on Apr 9, 2017 13:36:31 GMT -8
I saw a show on how too many deer is the problem Yeah, this is the problem when you eradicate or severely reduce the predators - bears, cougars, wolves, etc. I've read, but don't know for sure, that there are far more deer in the U.S. now than when the pilgrims arrived, especially here on the eastern seaboard.
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