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A tick bite led to former senator's death. Here's what is known about the virus
msn.com ^ | 10/30/19 | msn staff

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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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Outdoors; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: encephalitis; kayhagan; lymedisease; powassan; powassanvirus; tick; tickbite; virus
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To: Romans Nine
The only reason I go there is to visit family. I don’t have to get off cement to do that. 😂
81 posted on 10/30/2019 3:03:55 PM PDT by sheana
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To: Romans Nine

<>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.”


82 posted on 10/30/2019 3:06:34 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3790144/posts?page=80#80

Forgot to ping you on my response—linky above. Thanks for your ping.


83 posted on 10/30/2019 3:10:44 PM PDT by greeneyes
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

I have had no ticks for 3-4 years. Not since I got guinea fowls.


84 posted on 10/30/2019 4:10:41 PM PDT by Rannug (When you're dead, you're dead. Until then fight with everything you have.l)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Possums eat ticks by the thousands.


85 posted on 10/30/2019 4:38:51 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: cuban leaf

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!)


86 posted on 10/30/2019 5:25:50 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: MayflowerMadam; woodbutcher1963

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...)


87 posted on 10/30/2019 5:30:12 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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