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Living With Tick-Borne Infections in WA State
Lyme Awareness Month 2022
This year’s Lyme Awareness Month started out with a bang! Niagara Falls and the Helmsley building both lit up green!
1 May 2022
LymeDisease.org
Ticks are found in all countries on all 7 continents (yes even Antarctica, on penguins and other birds who fly to and fro) in the world.
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Further you can find “hot spots” in a lot of countries like Germany, the USA, Canada, the UK, Kenya, India, Norway, Romania, Russia, France, Greece, Serbia, Bosnia, Turkey, Ethiopia, Finland, Mozambique, and I’m sure many others I just don’t know about.
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Please be careful when you travel, or when you go to and from work. Or when you play in your yard. 75% of Lyme cases in the USA are from tick bites in our own yards. (I’m in the minority of getting infected while out or on vacation.)
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The CG and I will be at the Purdy Spit Bridge on 21 May at 3p for the Annual BorreliaEtc Rally!
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TickSpotters reported that the first nymph ticks of the year were spotted and reported to them on the third week of April in New Jersey. They could be carrying diseases. Please be careful.
This is a collage of just a few places ticks can be found. Please use proper precaution, tuck your pants into your socks, wear arachnid repellent (ticks are not insects!), when you come inside, throw your clothes in the dryer and get into a shower where you look for ticks on your body. Water will wash unattached ones away. Have someone check the places you can’t see. (Your head, neck, back, etc.)
This time of year they’re so small they go undetected. Nymph ticks start out the size of a period at the end of a sentence. They’ll be size of a poppy seed in May and June. Most people don’t see the ticks.. but feel the effects for years and years. Stay on trails. Be aware. It’s far easier to treat acute infections than letting it fester for weeks, months, or even years.
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