Happens but rare.
Posted on 10/30/2019 9:02:24 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
Former U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan died Monday at age 66 — nearly three years
after she was first hospitalized with what doctors later said was encephalitis.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes Powassan virus as
an illness spread by the bite of infected ticks.
Encephalitis is an inflammation of the brain often caused by an infection like the Powassan virus, according to the Mayo Clinic.
"The recovery process for viral encephalitis varies by case
with differing impacts on the brain, speech, vision, memory and muscle control.."
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Yeah, I may have been using hyperbole. But 20% means that just getting bit two or three times is REALLY dangerous.
The ones I really hate are the really tiny ones. You don’t see them often until they’ve munched on your blood a bit. I believe the good news is that that stage is much less likely to have picked up any of the dreaded diseases.
And lone star ticks are apparently pretty harmless. I live seeing that white dot on a tick that’s feeding on me.
When I looked it up a few years ago Kentucky has about 60 cases a year reported Lyme disease. The key word here being reported.
When I was regularly shooting on my friends property out in the county, very forested and plenty of ticks, all my clothes were treated with Permethrin. Very effective stuff. Also keeping grass down below 4 in in height helps. Also ticks go dormant at 40° ground temperature. Which is why I always enjoyed shooting in the winter if it was above freezing.
One day I was sighting in a target and lo and behold there’s a tick crawling down the barrel of the rifle.
I also keep a bottle of Permethrin spray in the garage. I spray it on my boots/sneakers/shoes that I wear outside.
In addition to spraying the yard I also put down DE powder in and around my fenced in dog yard. It is the same DE that they sell to mix with cattle/animal feed. It kills parasites in their guts.
Chiggers will drive insane.
I had bought a couple bales of hay to throw over grass seed and for the next 3 weeks I was scratching chigger bites on my legs and in my groin. It was really annoying.
Assuming that my research is accurate, it said that if you are exposed to chiggers and you get in a hot shower and soap up well and rinse well within two hours you will not end up with a bunch of bites. They claim they don’t bite immediately.
I think a lot of those cases are people that go out into the woods untreated and get so careless about it they don’t even check. I’ve seen some VERY nasty tick bites on the internet. I can’t imagine waiting that long to get rid of a tick. It makes no sense.
BTW, I discovered that showering right after coming in from the woods drastically reduces chigger bites.
FWIW, I have 32 acres, 25 of which is woods and the rest lawn. I spend a lot of time with clippers and a weed whacker. Long clothing and Permathrin are as critical to that as oil is in your engine.
Assuming that my research is accurate, it said that if you are exposed to chiggers and you get in a hot shower and soap up well and rinse well within two hours you will not end up with a bunch of bites. They claim they don’t bite immediately.
Only a handful of people have ever died from Powassan virus... So relax... You will NEVER get it.
Needs to be a fact finding mission to these areas by all members of congress.
There’s so many ways a tick bite can rock your world.
Lyme Disease is the least concern.
Being a kid in the 1960s to the early 1970s in South Jersey the summer time tick check was a normal thing. If we found a tick we just pulled it off and that was that. Never heard of these different diseases back then.
I had lymes last summer from shooting in northern Minnesota. I’m certain I got it from a brown tick but my dr refused to believe me.
Awful experience.
I go to Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas twice a year to visit relatives. Some of them live in the country and I refuse to get off cement. Lol. In June I actually found my first tick on me. Freaked me out!
If you had Lyme Disease, you would know it. Trust me.
Your doctor has seen it. During the summer in a northern clime, your doc has had half a dozen people come in tell him they think its LD ever day.
One thing never mentioned on Infectious disease thread is how deep state dem/rino politicians and all their minions are an infectious disease infesting Americans that we need a vaccine for.
Apologies for the thread slide.
My Dr treated me for lymes but did not believe it could possibly come from a brown tick. She insisted it had to be a deer tick. I beg to differ.
Picked up Rocky Mountain Spotted from a bite here in central WI 3 years ago.
I grew up a few miles from Uconn. I recall that CT had the opportunity to eradicate much of the Lyme by creating feeding troughs throughout the state that would force the deer to walk through a tick “wash”. This would slowly but surely kill off diseased ticks.
The state environmental whackos killed the idea because they feared that the deer population would grow and need to be culled - as well as endanger motorists.
Lol! Too funny...
Most medical references indicate that the "Bulls-eye" rash,
which routinely identifies a tick bite, occurs in only about 25% of the bites.
The medical tests to determine Lyme disease, last I knew, is not trust worthy
giving both false positives and false negatives.
Tick transference from warm blooded to another animal is known,
since many tick bites are transferred to humans ,after having been relocated by deer.
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