BTW- Someone asked me why have an injection for treating tick bites.. when the IDSA specifically states not to treat tick bites.
And why not ORAL doxy rather than having to have a "shot"?
My opinion...
Taking oral doxy would produce only about $10.00.. and very little profit for drug companies.
I don't know the cost of the injection.. but chances are it will cost more than a handful of doxy... it could be under a patent making it even more income friendly.. and would generate at least one doctors visit.
Cha-ching! $$$
And I'd like to know WHO promotes this concept since the IDSA doesn't feel preventative treatment is necessary.
Don't they know they are going against the IDSA when they promote stuff like this?
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Tincup, every year I read the city newspaper on the start of hunting season. It's always like two full pages of pix and information, laws etc. Only allowed to kill 3 deer during the season, etc.
Not once in the last 9 yrs have I read a warning to hunters of turkey or deer about the dangers of a tick bite. Not once have they been warned about the dangers of hunting and the symptoms to look for in yourself should you have nymph tiny ticks or deer ticks embedded in your body.
About 5 years ago I was sent a copy of an article written about the great state of Ky and how our powers that be had agreed to take thousands of wild turkeys from a Northeastern state.
The state had placed these wild turkeys in areas around lakes, wildlife etc. This northeastern state (can't remember which one) was over burdened with wild turkeys? We took them and spread them around our state.
Guess where some of those wild turkeys ended up? Yes, they were donated to the lake that we owned property & had a home on.
This generous donation of wild turkeys was made some time just prior, around the summer of '99. Summer of '99, 3 weeks after being attacked by 12 unknown sob's while cutting grass on vacation, my world was turned upside down.
My husband was on the riding mower. I was doing the push mower in any areas he couldn't get to. I had the strength and willpower back in those days to help cut the grass.
Not only was I able to cut the grass, but I was wearing my two piece bathing suit with shorts to catch some sun. The waistband of my shorts prevented the sob's from climbing any further. They burrowed into my pelvic area.
I put clear nail polish on all the bites and the rest of the story was/is ugly. People used to talk all the time about all the wild turkeys running around the lake properties.
People love to live and watch deer, turkeys, etc around their home. I cringe when I see deer or wild turkeys or any known animal that transports ticks and diseases.
There are many things that I find unattractive about nature now. I just don't see the wildlife world as some others do.
These people would need to walk in my shoes for the last 10 years and then they would get it. I just can't accept or like to put myself into what they call a world of beauty.
Cleared path or not, it's all hazardous to me. My sisters dogs that run all the woods surrounding their home, love me. Ticks love me too.
She tells me she treats the dogs and her cats. Great, I wish "they" would find something to "treat" for me. I'd love to be dipped or collared.
Those pets still are carrying in ticks. Ticks just taking a free ride, into the home of warm blooded unprotected uneducated innocent humans.
Pam
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