It seems many did not bother reading the article. Everyone should take precautions to guard against ticks bites when they go outside in an area where there are ticks. We even treat our yard for ticks and chiggers to reduce the risk for our kids. Ticks carry all kinds of diseases, and according to this article, additional risks beyond the diseases they carry. I almost died from Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, a tick born illness, when I was a kid.
you can do what you state, but still you are fighting a war with one hand tied behind your back.
And it appears that ticks all over are getting worse. All the “precautions” are to a degree helpful but you still can get sick the more I have read on the subject. Unless of course one decides to be a shut in or live in the concrete jungle.
Even the “tick has to be attached for up to 24 hours” may be wrong”.
I have free range guineas and chickens. All it takes is one tick to hop onto anything and travel to your yard and you happen to cross its path. Heck even DEET doesn’t always work.
Permitheren (sp?) is great on your jeans and boots. Last week I saw a tick walk up my treated jeans and he got real slow and stopped. A few minutes later I put him on a rock and was it motionless, then died.
But you still need luck. And early this summer luck was what I did not have.
When I was a kid in central Pennsylvania I played in the woods all the time and never once remember a tick. Now in Missouri all you have to do is walk under a tree and they drop on you.