Amgine

CBC: ‘You’re going to be naked’: Thorough tick checks the new norm as parasitic pests spread - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/mount-allison-professor-tick-checks-9.7248664

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"Find a mirror, find a friend," Lloyd said, adding that parents living in a high-tick area should be checking their young kids nightly.
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Includes link to this brilliant-but-boring #NB information page - https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/ocmoh/cdc/content/vectorborne_andzoonotic/tick-borne-diseases.html And now I desperately want a similar page for #BC. (Going to look for it now.)

@dmacphee

#adulting #ticks #Lyme #Borrelia #PublicHealth #health

‘You’re going to be naked’: Thorough tick checks the new norm as parasitic pests spread | CBC News

Once upon a time, no one believed Dr. Vett Lloyd when she said there were ticks in New Brunswick. Now, her lab is filled with the dead bodies of the tiny, parasitic arachnids.

CBC
Jun 28 at 1:45pmWeb
Show threadAmgine2d ago

British Columbia Centre for Disease Control #BCCDC has good set of pages with information regarding #tick borne illnesses - https://www.bccdc.ca/health-info/diseases-conditions/tick-borne-diseases There are links to other resources including eTick.ca which uses your image of a tick to identify and report tick species: 82,014 reports of ticks on humans!

They also have mapped where ticks which might carry Lyme disease could be found - https://maps.bccdc.ca/Lyme/

@dmacphee

#BC #outdoors #hiking #tick #Lyme #LymeDisease

Tick-borne diseases

Show threadAmgine2d ago

#PSA: A quick healthy outdoors note about avoiding #tick bites (and thereby tick-borne diseases):

Before going out:

* Wear light-coloured clothes, long-sleeves.
* Tuck your shirt into your pants, and your pants into your socks/boots.

After going out:

* Do a full body check, particularly in crevasses, dark, damp, or hairy spots, on
* yourself
* kids
* pets
* outdoor gear

Be aware ticks may drop off in the car, at home, only to catch a ride again later.

https://www.bccdc.ca/Documents/Going_Outdoors_Watch_for_Ticks.pdf