> 1. if we always had them. Probably not, I can't remember seeing that many in my childhood Growing up in Austria we regularly got shots for tick-borne encepha

> 1. if we always had them. Probably not, I can't remember seeing that many in my childhood Growing up in Austria we regularly got shots for tick-borne encephalitis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick-borne_encephalitis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick-borne_encephalitis). Ticks not only existed but have been known to be problematic for quite some time.