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.."
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
<>This is way overblown.<>
From the column:
“Ticks thrive in a warm environment, which explains their population increase being directly proportional to the rise in temperature as a consequence of global warming.”
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3790144/posts?page=80#80
Forgot to ping you on my response—linky above. Thanks for your ping.
I have had no ticks for 3-4 years. Not since I got guinea fowls.
Possums eat ticks by the thousands.
Garlic soup every day of the summer!
I have a braid of Estonian Garlic in the cool of the garage. I have about 25 garlic bulbs planted in the garden! (Right next to my multiplier onions!)
I do not think the city would take well to me burning off my zoysia lawn in the spring. Maybe I should spray it down with neem and eucalyptus oil instead and see it disuades the chiggers. (It could be oak gall mites, which fall on your shoulders and neck!)
DE = little shards of silica, I would put this in the same catagory as asbestos. Not a good thing to have poking through your cell membranes! (Could DE call mesothelioma? I wonder...)
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