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Everyone is tocking about this tick.

LAST SUMMER, IN a town just outside New York City, a tick bit a man.

This ought to sound unexceptional. Ticks are normal on the upper East Coast; after all, tick-transmitted Lyme diseasewas first identified next door, in Connecticut. But the tick that covertly slid its pointy barbed mouthparts into an unlucky 66-year-old Yonkers resident was something new. It was the first invasive tick to arrive in the United States in 50 years, and this was the first time it had bitten a human.

That bite didn’t make its victim sick. But that it occurred at all is causing scientists to realize how little they know about the insect involved, known as the Asian longhorned tick: what diseases it transmits, where it prefers to live, and how it manages to move across long distances. Behind those unanswered questions looms a larger problem: We haven’t paid as much attention to ticks as we have to other insects that carry diseases. We have a long way to go to catch up—just as changes in weather patterns have ticks on the move too.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-terrifying-unknowns-of-the-asian-longhorned-tick/
 
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Everyone is tocking about this tick.

LAST SUMMER, IN a town just outside New York City, a tick bit a man.

This ought to sound unexceptional. Ticks are normal on the upper East Coast; after all, tick-transmitted Lyme diseasewas first identified next door, in Connecticut. But the tick that covertly slid its pointy barbed mouthparts into an unlucky 66-year-old Yonkers resident was something new. It was the first invasive tick to arrive in the United States in 50 years, and this was the first time it had bitten a human.

That bite didn’t make its victim sick. But that it occurred at all is causing scientists to realize how little they know about the insect involved, known as the Asian longhorned tick: what diseases it transmits, where it prefers to live, and how it manages to move across long distances. Behind those unanswered questions looms a larger problem: We haven’t paid as much attention to ticks as we have to other insects that carry diseases. We have a long way to go to catch up—just as changes in weather patterns have ticks on the move too.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-terrifying-unknowns-of-the-asian-longhorned-tick/
W have 3 species of ticks: the deer tick, the American dog tick and the lone star tick here in NYS. Only the deer ticks can carry the bacterium that results in Lyme disease. Never known an animal or person to get the disease but plenty of animals and people who venture in the fields or tall grasses get bit. They are very nasty little buggers once they poke their nasty head into you or your pet..
 
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Never known an animal or person to get [Lyme] disease but plenty of...people who venture in the fields or tall grasses get bit.

In the UK about 2,000-3,000 people contract Lyme disease each year. lt’s something to be very careful about, as the symptoms can be debilitating and last for years.

Especially in the Southeast and the Scottish Highlands, check yourself/each other for ticks after visiting the countryside, and invest in a proper tick removal device. (l recommend the O/Tom tick twister, available for £2.99 from Amazon).

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/lyme-disease/

maximus otter
 
In the UK about 2,000-3,000 people contract Lyme disease each year. lt’s something to be very careful about, as the symptoms can be debilitating and last for years.

Especially in the Southeast and the Scottish Highlands, check yourself/each other for ticks after visiting the countryside, and invest in a proper tick removal device. (l recommend the O/Tom tick twister, available for £2.99 from Amazon).

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/lyme-disease/

maximus otter
We just touch the ticks with a blown-out tip of a match. Dad showed me this as a kid. They let go immediately taking their nasty mouth parts along with them. Not sure what happens if you let them go undetected (their very easy to spot, you'd have to be unconscious to not know when there on Y, however tougher to tell with my dog).
Over here Lyme disease is spread mainly by deer ticks residing on whitetail deer. The NYS "Department of Environment and Conversation" attempts to keep this in check and provides warnings on TV.
 
In the UK about 2,000-3,000 people contract Lyme disease each year. lt’s something to be very careful about, as the symptoms can be debilitating and last for years.

Especially in the Southeast and the Scottish Highlands, check yourself/each other for ticks after visiting the countryside, and invest in a proper tick removal device. (l recommend the O/Tom tick twister, available for £2.99 from Amazon).

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/lyme-disease/

maximus otter

I thought Lyme Disease was named for Lyme in Connecticut. So you'd expect there to be US cases.

Oh - there are US cases - about 300,000 a year!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease#Society_and_culture
 
Lyme disease is no joke.

A couple of month back one of my daughter complained about a rash that was spreading on her leg. and she was feeling tired all the time.

W took her to A&E, and they were not sure what it was. shortly afterward she was feeling very ill. A doctor said it was Lyme Disease. She had probably picked it up from a tick that had attached itself to her leg as she was walking in the fields.

She will be on medication for about six months. But is feeling much better.

Nasty little critters, ticks.

INT21.
 
Lyme disease is no joke.

A couple of month back one of my daughter complained about a rash that was spreading on her leg. and she was feeling tired all the time.

W took her to A&E, and they were not sure what it was. shortly afterward she was feeling very ill. A doctor said it was Lyme Disease. She had probably picked it up from a tick that had attached itself to her leg as she was walking in the fields.

She will be on medication for about six months. But is feeling much better.

Nasty little critters, ticks.

INT21.

Terrible. At least it can be treated.
 
We just touch the ticks with a blown-out tip of a match. Dad showed me this as a kid. They let go immediately taking their nasty mouth parts along with them. Not sure what happens if you let them go undetected (their very easy to spot, you'd have to be unconscious to not know when there on Y, however tougher to tell with my dog).
Over here Lyme disease is spread mainly by deer ticks residing on whitetail deer. The NYS "Department of Environment and Conversation" attempts to keep this in check and provides warnings on TV.

That's the worst thing you can do to remove a tick. Yes, it will let go, but it also vomits the now-infected blood it has drunk back into you.

Here's some interesting stuff about ticks:

https://www.outsideonline.com/1915071/rise-tick
 
That's the worst thing you can do to remove a tick. Yes, it will let go, but it also vomits the now-infected blood it has drunk back into you.

Here's some interesting stuff about ticks:

https://www.outsideonline.com/1915071/rise-tick
No Lymes disease in NYS in the 60's - 70's when we got bit. No kits or? back then. BTW technique works on leeches as well. The vet removes them from our dog chemically that was more recently.
 
No Lymes disease in NYS in the 60's - 70's when we got bit. No kits or? back then. BTW technique works on leeches as well. The vet removes them from our dog chemically that was more recently.
The fact that there was no Lyme Disease in NYS back in the 60s and 70s was probably less down to the way you removed ticks, and more down to the fact the disease was yet to be identified - it was discovered in Lyme, Connecticut thanks to a small cluster of infections, in the late 70's/early 80's. Nowadays, infected ticks are spread far and wide.

If you remove a tick carefully, within 24 hours of it starting to feed, the chances are you won't get Lyme Disease, because of the way it travels through the tick into the host upon which it is feeding. Making it spew into you by burning its backside is only going to speed up that infection progress.

Hey, but what do I know? I'm just passing on the advice given by trained healthcare professionals. You know best, so you carry on, old son!
 
The fact that there was no Lyme Disease in NYS back in the 60s and 70s was probably less down to the way you removed ticks, and more down to the fact the disease was yet to be identified - it was discovered in Lyme, Connecticut thanks to a small cluster of infections, in the late 70's/early 80's. Nowadays, infected ticks are spread far and wide.

If you remove a tick carefully, within 24 hours of it starting to feed, the chances are you won't get Lyme Disease, because of the way it travels through the tick into the host upon which it is feeding. Making it spew into you by burning its backside is only going to speed up that infection progress.

Hey, but what do I know? I'm just passing on the advice given by trained healthcare professionals. You know best, so you carry on, old son!
It slowly moved it's way up north mainly via out antlered friends. 1st cases were reported up north some 20 years odd years ago. Agreed with modern removal techniques the vet uses a chemical method to remove them from our dog. Progress marches on, good info.
 
In what might seem like a plague of Biblical proportions, swarms of an invasive new blood-thirsty tick have killed multiple cows in North Carolina and already have a taste for human blood.

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Haemaphysalis longicornis

Asian longhorned ticks, otherwise known as “clone ticks,” are particularly worrisome because they have the ability to reproduce without a mate, and unfortunately, that’s not the worst part about them.

A fully fed female can spawn as many as 2,000 offspring on her own, spreading various diseases to humans, such as the Powassan virus. Symptoms can include fever, vomiting and seizures, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

North Carolina’s Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services put out a press release saying that the death of five cows was linked to acute anemia caused by tick infestations.

“The deceased young bull brought to our Northwestern Animal Disease Diagnostic Lab had more than 1,000 ticks on it and the owner had lost four other cattle under the same circumstances,” said the organization.

In May, the first case of the tick species biting a human in the U.S. was reported by researchers in New York. Field studies confirmed that this species of tick was present in multiple areas surrounding the victim’s residence.

The Centers for Disease Control said that as of June 24, Asian longhorned ticks have been found in Arkansas, Connecticut, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.

While these “clone ticks” have typically been found in Asia, Australia and New Zealand where they’ve been known to spread lethal pathogens, this specific species mysteriously appeared in the United States in 2017 when NPR reported a woman in New Jersey found thousands of the invasive species on her pet sheep and her clothing.

http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/cl...drained-blood-from-livestock-threatens-humans

maximus otter
 
Here's another recently discovered invasive tick species - one that actively pursues its prey (us!) ...
As If Ticks Weren't Terrifying Enough, This Giant Bloodsucker Will Hunt You Down

Giant, invasive ticks have been spotted in the Netherlands, and they do something that's frankly horrifying: They run after their hosts.

An unusually large adult tick was found on July 13 in Drenthe, a province in the northeastern part of the Netherlands. The arthropod, Hyalomma marginatum, is not native to the country. Another of these ticks had been discovered in the region one week earlier, officials with the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) said in a statement on July 24.

The invasive newcomers can measure up to 0.2 inches (6 millimeters) long — about twice the length of the more common sheep tick (Ixodes ricinus) — and grow to 0.7 inches (2 centimeters) when engorged with blood. And while Ixodes ticks sit and wait for animal hosts to wander close by, Hyalomma ticks actively pursue their hosts, hiding on the ground and then scuttling toward them ...
FULL STORY: https://www.livescience.com/66059-giant-ticks-hunt-down-prey.html
 
Beware of ticks.

A virus carried by ticks, which is common in many parts of the world, is now present in the UK and health officials are reminding the public how to avoid bites from the tiny bugs.

They say the risk of tick-borne encephalitis is very low - only one person is confirmed to have been infected in England so far, last year. But the tick species which carries the virus is widespread in the UK. Most people do not develop symptoms but swelling to the brain is possible.

The UK Health Security Agency has recommended changes to testing in hospital so that any new cases can be picked up quickly.
Enhanced surveillance for the virus is now being carried out in England and Scotland, where there is one probable case of tick-borne encephalitis.

Health officials are also testing for the presence of the virus in blood samples of people with no symptoms in parts of Yorkshire, where the confirmed case was infected. ...

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-65177440
 
I once saw a stray dog with ticks and I was shocked how big they were on his coat, a real nightmare.

I think this person was trying to take this dog to his vet.
 
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