“Most cases in the United States occur in the northeast and Great Lakes regions
from late spring through mid-fall when ticks are most active,” according to the CDC.
“There are no vaccines to prevent or medicines to treat Powassan virus disease.” (Emphasis mine)
To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Infectious Disease Ping - "Powassan virus" caused by tick bite
Outdoor enthusiasts at greatest risk
Encephalitis is an inflammation of the brain often caused by an infection like the Powassan virus.
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Awareness and Permethrin at this point are the only preventatives
against ticks.
3 posted on
10/30/2019 9:05:12 AM PDT by
voicereason
(The RNC is like the "one-night stand" you wish you could forget.)
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
I moved from Seatttle to a hobby farm in south central KY. I didn’t know what a tick was until I moved here. I’ve been bitten 20 or 30 times, and that doesn’t count all the ones I picked off before they found a nice dinner spot.
But if I had been bitten that many times in the northeastern US, I’d probably be dead by now. Lyme disease and rocky mountain spotted fever are the risks here, and they are very rare. I believe that if more than half the ticks in the Northeast are carriers of lyme disease. It’s quite a bit lower here.
And the way you take the tick off also determines if the regurgitate the poison into you.
4 posted on
10/30/2019 9:07:15 AM PDT by
cuban leaf
(The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
5 posted on
10/30/2019 9:07:18 AM PDT by
bgill
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
That’s it. I am getting a tick dip.
7 posted on
10/30/2019 9:08:24 AM PDT by
Gamecock
(Time is short Eternity is long It is reasonable that this short life be lived in light of eternity)
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Ticks are just nasty little b****s
10 posted on
10/30/2019 9:11:11 AM PDT by
glorgau
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
From the article, the money quote:
"...which explains their population increase being directly proportional to the rise in temperature as a consequence of global warming,”
14 posted on
10/30/2019 9:14:09 AM PDT by
C210N
(If you dislike productive billionaires, be 1,000 times more suspect of one confiscatory trillionaire)
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
The irony! Died from a brain infection!
16 posted on
10/30/2019 9:23:33 AM PDT by
dangus
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
As the old joke goes, being surrounded by many Dem bloodsuckers is usually called... poli-ticks.
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Only a handful of people have ever died from Powassan virus... So relax... You will NEVER get it.
27 posted on
10/30/2019 9:34:24 AM PDT by
jerod
(Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Needs to be a fact finding mission to these areas by all members of congress.
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
There’s so many ways a tick bite can rock your world.
Lyme Disease is the least concern.
29 posted on
10/30/2019 9:36:45 AM PDT by
chris37
(Where's Hunter?)
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
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.
30 posted on
10/30/2019 9:37:00 AM PDT by
4yearlurker
(A big mouth doesn't make a big man.~John Wayne)
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
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.
31 posted on
10/30/2019 9:37:35 AM PDT by
Manic_Episode
(Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
37 posted on
10/30/2019 9:57:27 AM PDT by
deport
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Thank good ness I live here where we only have homeless,illegals, and fires to worry about
49 posted on
10/30/2019 10:29:00 AM PDT by
Yaelle
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
65 posted on
10/30/2019 11:02:01 AM PDT by
Dawgreg
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)
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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