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Also anecdotal but I grew up in California camping and hiking all the time, never once got a tick. I’ve been in the Bay Area for the last eight and a half years
by alonmower 9y ago
Also anecdotal but I grew up in California camping and hiking all the time, never once got a tick. I’ve been in the Bay Area for the last eight and a half years, also spending lots of time outside and nothing. Then, about a week ago, I got a tick while hiking in Point Reyes. Not even going through deep woods, just on one of the well maintained coastal trails. Thankfully I caught it early, I felt what I thought was a pimple near my armpit and investigated on the car ride home only to realize that it was quite a large tick
- pmoriarty 9y agoThe thing is you might have had ticks on you and not even known it. You have to be very careful to check all over your body. How many people actually do that? Also, the tick might be in your hair, so you might not even see it. Finally, some baby ticks (which can carry Lyme) are smaller than the period at the end of a sentence. They are very hard to spot.
- alonmower 9y agoYa, I'll definitely be searching much more thoroughly now. I was lucky that the tick was huge and hard to miss (though it didn't feel that way at the time)