[tired&retired]

This is potentially far more serious than Lyme’s disease and carried by the same tick.

[Palio di Siena]

8 out of 10 teenagers in Teaneck NJ had their zits cleared up by clearasil.

[metmom]

Great.

Another reason to avoid deer ticks.

[metmom]

Ping

[Eagles6]

Where in PA?

😮 I'm in PA and I want to know.

[mewzilla]

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!

[mowowie]

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.

[bgill]

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.

[ConservativeMind]

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[Cowman]

Next up the flea collar mandate in public schools

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

So how do we kill the deer ticks? Spirochete (from 5/1/2017, wayback machine):
" 5% Permethrin kills them when they get on treated clothing - supposedly after multiple laundry cycles...

Amazon: Sawyer permethrin aerosol (hot link)
Amazon: Sawyer permethrin pump (hot link)

" It definitely repels fleas for many days; it might be killing them :) "

[SJackson]

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They'll have a vaccine for my dogs long before humans.

[sit-rep]

Great place for the next BLM rally!!

[gundog]

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.

[Ellendra]

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.

[reasonisfaith]

Did they mention government agencies funding gain of function research?

Where they make viruses more deadly and then put the viruses into ticks and mosquitoes?

[StAnDeliver]

Put the climate change all the way at the bottom, did they? Even got in a dig at commercial development and property rights.

Why are we FRacebooking this site to death with this shit? I know who wants to ruin this site, do you?

" In a 2019 study in the Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, (opens in new tab) researchers predicted that "the number of [Lyme disease] cases in the United States will increase by over 20 percent in the coming decades." Increased temperatures and humidity are likely to contribute to increased reproduction, survival and expansion of ticks. A 2021 review in the journal Insects predicts that black-legged ticks will continue to expand farther northward across Minnesota, the Dakotas and Alaska by 2050.

However, climate change is just one part of the problem; changes in land use across North America also may play a role."