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ER Visits Surge and Experts Urge Caution amid Record Tick Season

The current tick season is reported to be the worst in decades, with emergency room visits for bites and cases of Lyme disease increasing. According to the CDC, 71 out of every 100,000 emergency room visits were for tick bites, which is a 25% increase over last year. This figure excludes visits to urgent care facilities and doctors' offices. Each year, about 500,000 Americans contract Lyme disease from tick bites, and a majority of people fully recover from the bacterial infection following […]

https://drinkofjesus.com/2026/06/03/er-visits-surge-and-experts-urge-caution-amid-record-tick-season/

DoomsdaysCW 5d ago

Another use for #DuctTape and #TickControl (from the #UniversityOfRhodeIsland)

#DeTick With Duct Tape

Excerpt: "Of the 1,001 things duct tape is good for, it is a very effective way to de-tick yourself when larvae ticks climb on. With ticks, it works best to get them before they dig in and start to feed. Lint rollers also work but duct tape is stickier (and you can probably find 5 or 10 other things to use your duct tape for).Our #TickSmart Tip for August and September is to always have sticky duct tape ready just in case of a tick swarm. Duck Brand tape even comes in an appropriate lime (#Lyme) green color!"

Read more [CW - contains images of ticks crawling on bare skin]:
https://web.uri.edu/tickencounter/tick-notes/de-tick-with-duct-tape/

#SolarPunkSunday #SpendTimeInNature #DuckTape #TickRemoval #Ticks

De-Tick With Duct Tape

Late summer is when you're most likely to encounter an egg-batch's worth of larval stage deer (blacklegged) or Lone Star (seed) ticks. These six-legged larvae hatch from egg masses that can contain 3,000 or more...

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Pepijn May 27

Have you ever seen a tick via microscope? Here's your chance to see the tick that was on me earlier today.

Two photos and two animated GIF. In one of the GIF you can see it unexpectedly move like the fricking facehugger in Alien*. Anyway. I won. As is shown in the second photo.

*probably didn't help that I accidentally prepared the slide with human-safe-eyedrops instead of alcohol..

#tick #lyme #nature #microscope

DB 🌱💦May 26

Posted on X by giveashitnature

"If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box.

The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year.

A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry #Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease.

Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology have clearly stated: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk."

If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box is one of the most useful single things you can do for tick exposure at the landscape scale. Match the box to the owl that lives near you.

The mouse is the problem, owls are the solution."

#Owls

Menno Slaats May 22

Vandaag kreeg ik bericht dat ik het daadwerkelijke vaccin heb gekregen tijdens het onderzoek naar een vaccin tegen de ziekte van Lyme. Nu hopen het vaccin snel goedgekeurd wordt zodat het voor iedereen beschikbaar komt!
#VLA15 #VALOR #Lyme #vaccin #onderzoek

somecanuckchick May 22

Montréal public health is warning of an uptick in #Lyme disease in the city, after record high cases in 2025... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/lyme-disease-montreal-public-health-9.7207638 #polMTL #MTLpoli #santeMTL #MTLhealth #polQC #QCpoli #polcan #cdnpoli

Record-high Montreal Lyme disease cases prompt warning from public health | CBC News

Montreal public health is warning of an uptick in Lyme disease in the city after officials recorded 161 cases in 2025.

CBC

Yogi Jaeger May 18

Having an unexpected & surprisingly long-lasting #MECFS flare-up the past four weeks. Turns out I caught #Lyme disease. Tick (or other insect) bite, although I did not notice it. Classical ring-shaped rash. Been on high seas when standing up, with concomitant migraines for weeks. Totally exhausted and at the edge all the time.

All precautions were in place, but I just seem to get "lucky," infection-wise, these past few years. That's life.

Take care of yourselves. It's rough out there.

Edge May 15

The #AVLWatchdog has a story about #ticks, and the southward spread of #Lyme disease.

https://avlwatchdog.org/lyme-disease-is-here-biltmore-forests-ticks-prove-it-scientists-say/

Lyme disease is here — Biltmore Forest’s ticks prove it, scientists say

The town of Biltmore Forest has an irregular, oblong shape, hemmed as it is on all sides by natural and manmade barriers: Interstate 40 to the north; Hendersonville Road to the east; the Blue Ridge Parkway to the south; and, to the west, the thick woods of the Biltmore Estate and, beyond it, the French […]

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vidajo May 14

Daar moet je als patiënt een lange adem voor hebben.
#onderzoek #longcovid #lyme #teletekst

Julia May 12

May 12th is

International Awareness Day for

Chronic Immunological and Neurological Diseases ( #CIND - awareness colour added when known, otherwise: 🫶)

💙 #MECFS - Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

#ES - Environmental Sensitivities or Intolerances
#MCS - Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

💜 #FM - Fibromyalgia

🫶 #GWI Gulf War illness

💚 #LYME Lyme disease

🧡 #MS multiple sclerosis

🩵 #POTS Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome

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