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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In TX, we’ve never had deer in the yard my entire life. Now, this past month, there have been up to a dozen at night. This is rural and there’s always been deer but the herds are growing so they’re moving in from the pastures.
Guinea keets are nearly wild. You have to pen them in for a while when you first get them so they know where home is, else they’re apt to wander off never to be seen again. After they know where home is, they sleep in the trees so they’re pretty much zero maintenance. You could go away for a month and they’d be there when you got back. They are loud though.
Lawrence Township Recreational Park
in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania
Next up the flea collar mandate in public schools
That seems to be about Americans picking it up abroad, and just how many Ukrainians are shipped to central PA?
Also, Powassan is not mentioned, just general encephalitis.
I have been concerned along time now that we have too many immigrants who keep going back to their hellholes every year. It’s been happening at our private school and the college I work at. (Also some of my hubby’s coworkers, one young one of whom died from disease in India) Scares the dickens out of me.
That’s a good point. Probably not for THIS, but in general. Never mind the fact “rescue” has to bring in foreign dogs tells me it’s a scam business, not a charity.
(From the article):" Powassan virus are asymptomatic, those that are symptomatic can be deadly,.. 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..."
Lyme disease, is a bacterial infection and can be arrested by timely use of antibiotics (generally within 24 hours).
According to the CDC:" There is no specific treatment for Powassan virus disease; clinical management is supportive.
Patients with severe meningeal symptoms often require pain control for headaches and antiemetic therapy and rehydration for associated nausea and vomiting.
Patients with encephalitis require close monitoring for the development of elevated intracranial pressure, seizures, and inability to protect their airway." Thus requiring hospitalization until symptoms subside.
(My Comment) : Years ago, Powassan virus was thought to be limited to the Upper Great Lakes, Canada, and Michigan area.
Obviously, it has spread to throughout the general east Coast via mammalian vectors such as wild deer herds and many other vectors.
Sounds like a practical solution.
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" It definitely repels fleas for many days; it might be killing them :) "
They'll have a vaccine for my dogs long before humans.
Great place for the next BLM rally!!
Got any close neighbors? Guineas will probably roost on their porch.
No, thankfully.
How noisy is noisy anyways?
They can’t be much worse than our neighbors dogs who freak out over everything, all the time. And thankfully, they are not close enough to be loud but we can hear them at all hours.
I haven’t been on the game trails, proper, but I haven’t gotten a tick in a couple of months walking through the woods. (Oregon). If I start hunting antlers, that might change.
It depends on how contented they are. They’re quite annoying when upset
The big problem with all the ticks could be cured by going back to common sense and start trapping and shooting the raccoons, opossums, fox, and coyotes.
Nobody traps anymore and the varmints are out of control.
The varmints eat all the pheasants, quail, partridge, ducks, turkeys, and every ground-nesting bird, exactly what used to eat all the ticks!
You can have lots of gamebirds or varmints and ticks, but you can’t have both.
I know a guy who developed this after being bitten by a Lone Star tick.
Rather unfortunate because he was on vacation down South and it wouldn’t have happened otherwise.
I’m still testing this on my farm, but it has potential as a long-term tick-control method: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B086683PNS/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A1WMQPAGZ5642Q&psc=1
It contains 3 species of nematodes that are known to hunt and kill a variety of bugs, including ticks. The nematodes will continue to eat and reproduce as long as they have a food source.
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