Posted on 04/08/2022 4:02:45 AM PDT by tired&retired
recorded the highest-ever concentration of ticks carrying a variant of potentially fatal Powassan virus called deer-tick virus (DTV). This rare virus has the potential to cause deadly infections with lasting neurological effects, and officials fear it and other serious tick-borne illnesses may become more common in the future.
While many cases of Powassan virus are asymptomatic, those that are symptomatic can be deadly, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)(opens in new tab). Initial symptoms include headache, fever and vomiting, with the most severe cases involving neurological complications such as encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) and meningitis. Roughly 1 in 10 neuroinvasive cases of Powassan virus are fatal, and about half of the survivors of these cases experience long-term neurological health impacts.
The virus can be transmitted within 15 minutes of a tick bite, which is much faster than the time from bite to infection for many other tick-borne diseases, such as Lyme disease, in which a tick needs to be latched onto a person for more than 24 hours to transmit the disease.
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This is potentially far more serious than Lyme’s disease and carried by the same tick.
8 out of 10 teenagers in Teaneck NJ had their zits cleared up by clearasil.
Great.
Another reason to avoid deer ticks.
Yes, but as stated, many asymptomatic and only among the most severe of the symptomatic get to that 1 in 10 stat. Random or, more likely, tied to general health?
Ping
Time to release a few hundred guineas in the park.
😮 I'm in PA and I want to know.
I’ve thought about getting some.
I usually don’t like invasives but I heard they are also very hardy and can manage on their own in the wild, but can be noisy when disturbed. They would make a great early warning system, though.
Italians?…
Your backyard…
Gee, there couldn’t be a problem with all those refugees from Eastern Europe we’re letting in now, could there....
https://academic.oup.com/jtm/article/29/2/taab167/6421950
What a coinkydink that Powassan is in the news now!
Probably.
Good thing I bought a gallon of permethrin.
My sister got Lyme 35 years ago, before it was widely known.
Made her life hell, ever since.
This study was near Clearfield. A friend of mine works for DEP and did the field study collecting the ticks.
The study is being expanded.
The Pennsylvania deer herd sure are taking a beating.. Brain wasting disease, Covid-19, and a dozen other diseases...
My college buddy had it. Every once in a while he would disappear for weeks.
Gee, there couldn’t be a problem with all those refugees from Eastern Europe we’re letting in now, could there....
How about all the dogs they are bringing from other countries? These dogs are just flown in and given to people. Not checking the dogs out first.
Dogs likely aren’t an issue.
there have been so many frigging ticks around here outside of Boston this past decade that i don’t even want to walk through wooden areas anymore.
Last spring i ventured out into the wooden lot behind my parents house to clean some trash and came back with like 10 ticks on me.
I was finding them on me even a few days later.
Not many deer ticks here in MO. Plenty of Lone Star and a gazillion seed ticks aka baby ticks. I got this from Lone Star but got it in FL cleaning up the mo-in-law’s 5 acres. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_allergy
Allergy to mammalian meat. It starts to wane after a couple of years but then if I get another lone star bite, it’s apt to come back. It’s the only known delayed food allergy. 4-8 hours after eating. The leaner the meat, the less it affects me which is part of the reason I got meat goats. Took me a while to figure out what it was back in FL. Finally made the correlational to ribeye night. I’ll wake up at 2am with the hives, take a benadryl and scratch for an hour and it goes away. Wipes me out for the next day though. Had some ham once from a heritage breed of pig and it set me into anaphylactic shock.
I’ve had burgers, pork ribs, corned beef set me off and of course ribeye or other fatty cut. I stay out of the woods during warm weather now and run a band of Sevin granules around the house/shop area every Spring. I’ve got it pretty mild. I guess some people can go into anaphylactic if they eat a piece of chicken that was cooked on the same grill/griddle that was used for mammalian meat.
It’s mainly found in the SE US and I thought I would be just outside the prevalent area here in MO but the area expanded. They have it in AUS and discovered it about the same time a doctor from a Virginia university did here.
I use Sawyers Permethrin Spray on my clothes when it’s tick season and I wear light colored clothes so as to see any better.
I have ordered some nematodes from Arbico that are supposed to help with deer tick control. We’ll see how that goes. I understand that Guinea hens are virtual tick vacuums, but they are noisy and I am not yet ready to be tied down by animals.
I like to travel when I want with a minimum of interference. Every spring I have seedlings to manage, and that’s enough hauling them around if we’re going to be out of town for more than a day or two.
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