Discussion: ticks!?

Ticks as in the little bugs, or ticks as in small jerking motions? Goose and I were planning on visiting next July - can you get rid of them before we arrive?

Yeah, I wouldn't be so keen on visiting someone who had small jerking motions. Hopefully Phatty works on getting rid of them.

TICKS?!?!?! Do they carry Lyme disease over there? I've still got an itchy welt from my little friend that tagged me in April (don't think the Doc got all of him out).

Harps! You're infected. Please move to France where we now keep all the ticks and infected individuals.

Merci.

oh, it was a tick?

After Will spent the day with you at LRS he thought you had turrets. :)

Thanks to climate change, ticks continue to move further north and to higher altitudes. In much of Europe, you need to be pretty careful about Lyme. We got lots of warnings when we were in Scotland, for example. Read the chapter on "Geographical Distribution", pp. 6-11.

http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/000...

The scarier tickborne disease in Europe is tickborne encephalitis. It is less common in France but as you move further east into Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland, it becomes a bigger problem. It is most prevalent in eastern Europe. A friend who lives in Austria said that most people there get the vaccination so the number of cases among locals does not necessarily indicate the risk to outdoor adventurers from elsewhere.

http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications/Publications...

I just got back from southern Pennsylvania and am in major tick watch mode - both on me and my clothing and gear. I remember T. Rex who kept finding ticks for about 5 days after a race and figured they were surviving her frequent hair washing. Yecch!