One man's immunity to ticks (2015)
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https://youtu.be/xbPr7DHwSIw (skip to 1:35 to hear about Lyme and not Fermenting grains for chickens.)
In the video I talk about the treatment I followed to recover.
Yup contracted is the word I mean.
Next, mosquitoes...kissing bugs...leeches.
"Swimmer's Itch" is caused by a small worm-like parasites called schistosomes that die when it tries to enter and live in human skin. Pretty sure this is an immune response too.
A friend of her's showed it to her, and neither had any idea what it was. They ran to a doctor's office.
She explained that there weren't really that many ticks around at the time for them to even enter public awareness. Over a few decades, they started to appear in greater numbers, seemingly traveling northwards.
This hyper-connected world brings new challenges every year.
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I know there's thousands where I live in Louisiana, as well. "Developed" doesn't matter, just a place where squirrels or whatever are is enough to have ticks too.
I've never had a tick attach to me, but I have squished them climbing up my pants after coming inside, and obviously dogs collect them like pokemon.
In the tick seasons, I have ticks on me a few times per week. I usually feel them before they bite, though.
I catch a lot of them before they get that high, but some slip through.
My dogs get a ton. When they have the oil insecticide, they'll die while still on the dog. They do get a lot fewer with treatment.
Quite many people, especially one's who have dogs regularly get outside the city and interact with forests one way or another.
That being said, it is possible to get bitten by a tick even in a city, pretty much anywhere in Europe, no idea how it is in US.
This kind of blows my mind. Presumably you don't spend a great deal of time off pavement?
Dog-owners do report the same problem, at least if the animal is allowed close contact with humans for more than a few seconds apiece.
It is not uncommon to find multiple ticks on your clothes if you have been walking in tall grass. But they usually take quite a while before they find a spot to bite. So if you take some precautions it is not a big problem.
The bullseye mark only occurs in 70% or so cases. And if you have been bitten in the arm pit or your but crack, you might even miss the telltale rash entirely.
Also two weeks of doxycycline (or any antibiotic for that matter) isn’t fun.
The good news is that Pfizer has an mRNA Lyme vaccine in clinical trials.
Also I remember being drunk and watching Ixodes Ricinus move along my arm and trying to stick its nose thru skin. Everytime it backed up real fast, like it found something nasty inside. Very much the same thing as American Deer Tick Ixodes scapularis.