A friend died of Lyme disease here in Missouri. The seed ticks are hard to see and there are millions of them, in our yard alone.
I guess it’s time to move underground like they so in some of those scifi movies.
I have had two tick infections in the past three years. Previously I had fifty years of hundreds of bites every year without problems.
Doxycycline is cheap- a 10 day course is about 20% the cost of a tick panel.
The local practitioners have taken to prescribing doxy based on exposure and symptoms.
I knew a couple who’s horse died of it- well, actually it had to be put down it was suffering so bad- but i don’t think it would have made it anyways- I didn’t think animals coudl get it but apparently they can-
Sorry to hear of your friend- I’ll bet a good number of folks with compromised immune systems and such, or just poor health, die, and it never gets diagnosed as lyme disease or some other tick bourne illness- The reports likely call the deaths ‘due to natural causes’ because their hearts give out or something- but this is a direct link to lyme’s attacking the system and the person not being strong enough to fight it off-
It’s maddening that they are going after opioid prescriptions calling it a crisis, even though less than 2% of people that don’t misuse it ever get hooked on them- but they won’t do anything about ticks- Like chickensoup mentioned before, I’ll bet the elite’s grounds are all treated to combat ticks- They know they have a real crisis on their hands, but you don’t hear hardly anything about that because they aren’t willing to use the one thing that can stop it-