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I really want to move to a non-desert place that has very low incidence or should I say it? no Lyme. I've read that Colorado doesn't have Lyme disease is this really true or is this just more garbage? Any suggestions would be great....considering Europe too if there are options there!
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Tincup
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Colorado does have Lyme disease. It is in many countries and found in all US States.
I wish I could tell you where there is a lesser risk of contracting it, but my opinion is that it is pretty much everywhere. Many areas just haven't been looking for it.
If you would like, there are some prevention tips and information on the www.MarylandLyme.org website that may help you be safer in the meantime.
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I think that there are areas tho, that don't have such a high incidence of Lyme disease...I would tend to think that Montana is one of them...Wyoming perhaps, too...just my opinion...I have one foot in Wisconsin and the other in Montana.
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What about Arizona? Is that a good place because it's very dry?
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the thing is the low incidence places to live probaly have no treatment options anywhere around.
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True Azure but I'm hoping when I'm done with all of this I won't need treatment and can just live a normal life with less worrying! Thanks for the prevention tips Tincup!
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Ummm, Antarctica??? I seem to recall reading that this is the only place on the planet with no ticks or Lyme.
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Nope, not even Antarctica - some penguins were reported to have had TBDs - this from a cruiseship report. Now, I don't know how they were able to determine that, but that's what I read. Well, birds can fly ticks anywhere...
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I guess I'll have to move to the moon :-(
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quote:Originally posted by Summer24: I guess I'll have to move to the moon :-(
Another solution would be to simply check yourself for ticks every time you come in from a natural area. An epidemiologist said that this would eliminate over 90% of cases of Lyme disease.
But it still would be pretty cool to move to the moon... so if you're able to - I say go for it.
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i really doubt it would eliminate 90%. ticks can be too small to see and if they r small and in your hair.. and if u r a brunete ..forgut about it.
also you can get bit in the house. (i have been homebound cant step a toe outside and got bit) still hoping i wasnt reinfected.
i remember someone got infected who lived in a somewhat citified area. they got bit going their mailbox no grass in their "yard" except a patch by the mailbox.
I know a few infections that took place while walking around on a front or back lawn (not near trees and not overgrown)...
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quote:Originally posted by Robin123: Nope, not even Antarctica - some penguins were reported to have had TBDs - this from a cruiseship report. Now, I don't know how they were able to determine that, but that's what I read. Well, birds can fly ticks anywhere...
There goes my hope for owning a pet penguin!
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So I guess there really isn't a safe place and I should just move to where I want and take precautions?
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How 'bout Hawaii? I will volunteer to study the effects of living there, any sponsors?
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I never see any ticks here in Missouri. Have been here 15 yrs and have seen two ticks...but then, I don't go tromping in the woods or mow any lawns!
Many parts of Texas are safe.. but there again... stay out of the woods and don't go hiking.
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fuel-use permethrin. they wont attach. they disabppear or die before they get close enough
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Well you could move here,I got Lyme and babs in KY.
We dont have it here,however we have miles and miles of farm fields,fence rows removed.
All are sprayed over and over with bug killer,even attacked from the air with hell dive bomber poison spreading crop sprayer airplanes.
The Vane people here spray their grass with weed and feed with bug killer in it.
The chemicals here are killing me, poor trade off for no ticks,bees to polinate.ect.
MADDOG Corn field county!!! Ohio
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penguingirl, you could treat your penguin with FrontLine or keep it as an indoor only penguin, he he
seriously, I hear what you all are saying - I still can't get a hold of this idea either:
ticks are everywhere and you can't see the nymphs in your hair, and chances are we get re-infected after all this effort to heal...
I work with horses - lots of body contact with their legs and belly, even with my head as I wrok on their feet and got to get my face in there to see what I am doing - and , hm...
I seriously consider shaving my head and waering a wig to work
treating my clothes and checking myself often
also watch for symptoms and keep an LLMD handy
not liking the idea of never feeling safe again, either, that is just insane
can't we convince the government to eliminate deer like we eliminated wolves once, only much more humanely - quick, painless death?
in "Cure Unknown" Pamela Weintraub talks about the deer being artificially re-introduced in our lands again anyway
we have a three-legged doe that shows up year after year - can you say "no predators"?
There is something wrong with this picture.
I am not a killer person, but I do eat meat, and... so why not eat venison for a while instead of beef?
Unless we want to consider ourselves the intruders and just jump in a lake and be gone..
sorry to be so blunt, hope it does not offend anyone, just fighting Bart tonight and still unsure about my future, too
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