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This was from reindeer in Norway! Up there! Oh dear. Or do I say oh deer.
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- Oh, deer, oh, deer - indeed. Really, this could happen anywhere and with any animal, too.
Blood of an infected animal can easily infect even via a slight skin abrasion - or maybe some splatter to the eyes, nose, etc. Contact later on while cleaning up, etc.
I sent this to a relative who hunts in Texas. Thank you for posting it. -
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- Perhaps more important than sharing the not really new knowledge that blood of an infected animal may be responsible for transmitted lyme (though he could have also been bitten by an infected tick) . . .
is that the doctors did not rely on a negative test. They treated him based on clinical diagnosis. THIS is the key take away here, I think. -
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- When you pass along that article above to all you know who may be hunters or otherwise work with animals which might be injured, etc.
a good complementary link posted by BartenderBonnie the other day:
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