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That's a good question. Here in Latvia they actually make any walk in long grass somewhat problematic, as well as letting animals like dogs inside for whatever

That's a good question. Here in Latvia they actually make any walk in long grass somewhat problematic, as well as letting animals like dogs inside for whatever reason. I actually got lyme disease a few years ago - had a period of pretty lethargic behaviour and noticeable joint pain. Blood work helped figure out its presence in my body and a course of antibiotics thankfully made me better. Now, i'm not precisely sure about the long term symptoms, since me having occasional memory problems, insomnia and depression/anxiety all might be unrelated to it, but some people definitely get such symptoms and even worse ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease#Late_disseminated_infection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease#Late_disseminated... After malaria and mosquitoes have been properly addressed, it would be nice to collectively work on ticks.

DantesKite 5y ago
I think a better long-term solution that would have less cascading effects would be a cure for Lyme Diseases and the accompanying symptoms that follow years afterwards. Sorry you had to go through such a brutal disease. I've seen what it can do to people in the long-term and it can be devastating But it would requi.re such advanced medicine that doesn't exist today. Although I'm all for tick pest control (up to a certain point).
- KronisLV 5y ago
  Hey, if there are ways to vaccinate either the carriers of certain diseases, the people who'd get affected by them, or even cure those that have gotten ill, i think it's definitely worthwhile to research it further! I guess that's how we ended up with vaccines for rabies being airdropped from planes, which sounds a bit silly, but is a really interesting approach to attempting to solve a similar problem for populations of wild animals: https://globalnews.ca/news/5782966/rabies-vaccine-bait-drop-southern-ontario/ https://globalnews.ca/news/5782966/rabies-vaccine-bait-drop-... Though i'm not entirely sure how viable doing something along those same lines would be for ticks. I do recall, however, reading about attempts to genetically alter mosquitoes to make them more resistant to malaria, so that its spread would be limited: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/engineering-malaria-resistance-mosquitoes https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/enginee... Maybe an approach like that could be viable for other types of diseases as well, without necessarily exterminating the populations of carriers, rather simply releasing modified specimens into the wild and letting them propagate the modifications through natural means.

DantesKite 5y ago

I think a better long-term solution that would have less cascading effects would be a cure for Lyme Diseases and the accompanying symptoms that follow years afterwards. Sorry you had to go through such a brutal disease. I've seen what it can do to people in the long-term and it can be devastating But it would requi.re such advanced medicine that doesn't exist today. Although I'm all for tick pest control (up to a certain point).

KronisLV 5y ago
Hey, if there are ways to vaccinate either the carriers of certain diseases, the people who'd get affected by them, or even cure those that have gotten ill, i think it's definitely worthwhile to research it further! I guess that's how we ended up with vaccines for rabies being airdropped from planes, which sounds a bit silly, but is a really interesting approach to attempting to solve a similar problem for populations of wild animals: https://globalnews.ca/news/5782966/rabies-vaccine-bait-drop-southern-ontario/ https://globalnews.ca/news/5782966/rabies-vaccine-bait-drop-... Though i'm not entirely sure how viable doing something along those same lines would be for ticks. I do recall, however, reading about attempts to genetically alter mosquitoes to make them more resistant to malaria, so that its spread would be limited: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/engineering-malaria-resistance-mosquitoes https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/enginee... Maybe an approach like that could be viable for other types of diseases as well, without necessarily exterminating the populations of carriers, rather simply releasing modified specimens into the wild and letting them propagate the modifications through natural means.