Posted on 07/28/2023 12:08:25 AM PDT by Olog-hai
In 2022, doctors recorded the first confirmed case of tick-borne encephalitis virus acquired in the United Kingdom. […]
For the past 30 years, the U.K. has become roughly 1 degree Celsius warmer (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) on average compared to the historical norm. Studies have shown that several tick-borne illnesses are becoming more prevalent because of climate change. Public health officials are particularly concerned about TBE, which is deadlier than more well-known tick diseases such as Lyme, due to the way it has quickly jumped from country to country.
Gábor Földvári, an expert at the Center for Ecological Research in Hungary, said the effects of climate change on TBE are unmistakable. “It’s a really common problem which was absent 20 or 30 years ago,” he added.
Ticks can’t survive more than a couple of days in temperatures below zero, but they’re able to persevere in very warm conditions as long as there’s enough humidity in the environment. As Earth warms on average and winters become milder, ticks are becoming active earlier in the year. Climate change affects ticks at every stage of their life cycle — egg, six-legged larva, eight-legged nymph, and adult — by extending the length of time ticks actively feed on humans and animals. Even a fraction of a degree of global warming creates more opportunity for ticks to breed and spread disease. …
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Yup, climate changes. All the blaming of everything under the sun on the absurd phrase, “[manmade]climate change” is giving me a tick. When the weather changes back the other way, as it surely will, will they report on that, too?
Cherry-Picking!
This problem was probably as much or even more common during the Medieval Warm Period.
Oh, no!
Regards,
The end of the world is ticking away.
What it tells me is the Brits who tramp around tick country don’t bother to check to see if they have picked up a tick. Those being that stupid deserve what they get
Are there any lockdowns scheduled?
Let’s just start this piece of hysterical crapaganda with an outright lie.
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Ticks survive the winter in a variety of ways, but do not go away just because it is cold. Depending on the species – and stage in their life cycle – ticks survive the winter months by going dormant or latching onto a host. Ticks hide in the leaf litter present in the wooded or brushy areas they tend to populate.
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I have seen ticks when there’s snow and ice on the ground.
Ugh. So tired of it. Yes, the climate changes. We’re hurtling through space around a giant ball of fusing hydrogen which is hurtling around a much larger black hole. The idea that humans are impacting the climate on this planet in any appreciable way is laughable, and I’m really just fatigued by it all.
Of course they do.
It has nothing to do with increased population, more access to the outdoors, more people sleeping in parks and woods.
It’s climate change.
This past year we’ve returned sheets, blankets, clothing,and even a bed and air mattresses because they were infected with insects.
Most originated in India and Indonesia.
Global warming??? More likely filthy factories or contaminated shipping containers.
Last year a person I know developed alpha-gal syndrome via a tick bite. Sucks, because it creates a allergy against red meat. He only learned of it via blood tests and the dynamic reaction he had after eating certain foods. He had been hiking the trail in NC and said he got several bites and thought nothing of it.
A fraction of a degree?
Not buying it.
I live in Lincolnshire. We have miles and miles and miles of beautiful countryside her and in Yorkshire. We also have thousands of miles of public right of way in country/wildlife/farming land. We also have a lot of trekkers. Unfortunately most of them are amateurs and are not versed in hiking/camping/survival skills. More and more people are taking to the natural outdoors after the wave of lockdown. Tick infestation is on the increase in humans and pets but not in livestock. Incrrased exposure of the unprepared maybe driving the tick investation numbers higher. The tick situation is not as bad as it is in New England or the Mid-Atlantic states.
My 84 year old husband was just diagnosed with babesiosis. Will be picking up two antibiotics for him in about an hour. It began over two weeks ago. He was sleeping a lot. This is a guy who rode his Harley 40 miles last week to pick up Dodge paint for his truck. Then he started getting night sweats and was tested for Lyme, etc. Started on Doxy 2 days ago because he was in pain and was short of breath with neg. chest xray and ekg. Doc called last nite to tell me it is babesiosis. We are in NE PA and he has had a lot of exposure to ticks. Apparently nymphal tics are usually to blame for babesiosis. They are so small you can hardly even see legs on them.
Yep! That’s why after being caught flailing between boiling and ice age doomsaying they’re running with “climate change.”
On FR alone, today as I write this, the front page links articles propagandizing climate change as the evil force behind ticks, bad sleep, fires which are on camera being set in arson, and ocean temps.
All this to get the US as a vassal state paying tribute, taxes, to a global entity. That’s the real goal, they only goal. The rest is pure gaslighting. The power to tax is the power to destroy, and whether it’s called tax or tribute or reparations it means “you are owned by X so you must give them your wealth.”
Yikes, Do you mind sharing specific brands that were infested?
UFOs didn't take the focus off Pedo Joe.
We'll try "climate change" again...
Ticks are a serious issue here in southern NH. I personally spray my yard/grass at least twice a year now. I tried cedar oil last year because it is supposed to be non toxic to the good insects like bees.
I used to spray permetherin. I still spray that on my boots and my yard work jeans. Sawyer makes a diluted version you can buy at Walmart.
Last year I bought another insecticide that I purchased from an online supply house. There are actually three different insecticides I mix together in my 4 gallon backpack pump sprayer. After spraying this there were no ticks or mosquitos for about a month. I also treat my birdbath and the little pool week keep in the dog yard for the beagles.
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