Our most dangerous wildlife is back in numbers: #ticks.
Just found one on my leg. Probably picked up on yesterday's walk in the woods. It's a tiny nymph and while I spotted two others these are easy to miss.
The hazard is in the disease they carry. In our region (northern Europe, Denmark) primarily Lyme disease, transferred via bites.
Anyway. #PSA: check for ticks and take them off properly. For a week after check for the telltale Lyme rash (an expanding red circle ANYWHERE on your body).
Oh ffs. Just found another one..
And attached a photo (own work, some years ago) of what a #Lyme / #Borrelia infection looks like. Days to weeks after an infection (#tick bite) this circle can appear anywhere on the body (thus not only where the tickhole was). It will fade out in a day or two but that means the infection is in your body: go to your doctor and get antibiotics!
Someone mentioned #TBE as well. This is now endemic in many european regions. And there's a vaccin! Worth looking into.
@daniel_bohrer envious of that! They're nasty and seem to hide under every blade of grass
@ruari Am fine. Just want to eradicate all ticks and their bacteria / virus friends*.
*yeah yeah, everything has an ecosystem value etc etc. That said, Ticks seem to be the Segway-running-on-Windows-Vista-while-the-droid-is-wearing-Google-Glass-connected-to-an-Amazon-Fire-phone of the animal world.
@Pepijn I am all on yourside and against ticks!
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