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Posted by lpkayak (Member # 5230) on :
 
no problem tho. it was from antartica or somewhere so it didn't carry lyme. oh yeah...it got on the guy cuz he was messing around with penquins...
 

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Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
 
Are you kidding me??? Penguins?? HUH?? I'm hoping that was a joke!

Vaseline is a TERRIBLE thing to be putting on a tick!! If anyone sees that stupid email go around again this year about putting soap?? on the tick... please contact everyone that email went to and correct it!!

Last yr I started a correct email to help counter that stupid one!!!
 

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Posted by lpkayak (Member # 5230) on :
 
no-its true that is what they did on the show. i'm cynical now. it ****e me off so much how they put stupid info out there. and that will spread like crazy as truth-when the message we are trying to get out there won't.

i think they were going to test it for Bb in the hosp but when they ralized it was a tick from far away they didn't test it cuz "they knew" it couldnt have lyme

similar to letterman in the ben stiller post
 

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Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
 
Sheesh! But they think it came from a penguin?
 

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Posted by lpkayak (Member # 5230) on :
 
yeah-in the story this guy stole two penquins from a zoo. then he ended up n te hospital. while there they found a tick-in his naval i think

so when they identified the tick as coming fom the arctic they figure he must have gotten it from the penquin cuz he hadn't been to the arctic
 

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Posted by Cockapoo1996 (Member # 14238) on :
 
Wow there is nowhere to run!

Sub-Antarctic penguins infected with tick-borne viruses:

http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=36611

"As a next step in his research Professor Suhrbier is keen to obtain frozen serum samples from Antarctic and sub-Antarctic cruise passengers who develop unexplained fevers, likely to be of viral origin, after visiting seabird colonies and being bitten by a tick."
 

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Posted by Robin123 (Member # 9197) on :
 
Cockapoo - this is wild - how far-reaching the TBIs are, due to seabird flight -
 

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Posted by massman (Member # 18116) on :
 
The penguins didn't get the tick at the zoo ?

These docs intuition is that good ?

 

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Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
 
Wow, Cockapoo!!
 

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Posted by mtree (Member # 14305) on :
 
Cockapoo.....
there is no way we can shorten your member name...

great article....I sent it to my sister-in-law that lives in Hawaii who says they don't have Lyme there because they don't have ticks...

mtree
 

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Posted by Robin123 (Member # 9197) on :
 

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Originally posted by mtree:
[QB] Cockapoo.....
there is no way we can shorten your member name... /QB]

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