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Topic: SUCH BS!!! Just send them a pic of the tick...no worries...

Lymetoo
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https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/cdc-warns-tick-borne-illnesses-have-nearly-doubled-since-2004-1236398659972

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Keebler
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Yeah, I saw that. The wrong TYPE of tick, yeah!, they say. But not so quick. ANY TYPE tick can become infected if they get an infected blood meal. And then that tick, no matter the type, can infect any human it bites.

Also that some old dangerous myth that a tick has to be attached for any certain number of hours. Deadly myth.

If that tick has ever had a blood meal and if that blood meal was infected or it if was born with Bb or other TBD, it can infect it's next host the instant it breaks skin.

The segment I saw had a map on it and so many states had no lyme, according to the map. Again, very wrong, indeed and will lead to a false sense of security.

The only help in a photo is to identify if it's a tick vs. just another garden variety insect. Again, for anyone new to this, ANY TYPE of tick can infect if it carries disease.

And, oh, mosquitoes can transmit lyme, too. But that would just blow the collective mind of the collective NIH, IDSA, CDC to admit that. But it's been proven. It has, it can happen.
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hiker53
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This stuff makes me so mad. How would anyone even know how long the tick has been there if they didn't see it right away.

Lots of incorrect info.

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MannaMe
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And if you saw a tick right away - you wouldn't let it bite you!!!

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Lymetoo
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So aggravating!!

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Tincup
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Grrrrrrrrr.......

[Mad]

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