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Emphasis should be on tick-bite prevention. I have never had live tick on me and have been literally wallowing on all tick-infested areas on northern hemisphere
by timonoko 5y ago
Emphasis should be on tick-bite prevention. I have never had live tick on me and have been literally wallowing on all tick-infested areas on northern hemisphere. They just die. Most probably just drop off, but sometimes there is dead tick only slightly attached. Looks like they die on first drop of blood.
- Ensorceled 5y agoInterestingly, what you described might just be a side effect of tick bite exposure ... https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/health/lyme-disease/2015/08/01/how-one-local-mans-immunity-ticks-could-save-us-all/30578799/ https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/health/lyme-d...
- timonoko 5y agoSounds true. I actually had one and only tick in 1955. It was on my testicles, so very embarrassing.
- reustle 5y agoIt's pretty hard to say that confidently with how small deer ticks are. I find them crawling on me all the time in Pennsylvania, and those are just the larger ones. Have found a few deer ticks on me over the years, and good luck finding them in your hair without someone else to look.
- timonoko 5y agoI mean of course that I have never had a tick which managed to suck anything, except once in 1955. Also I remember being drunk and watching Ixodes Ricinus move along my arm and trying to stick its nose thru skin. Everytime it backed up real fast, like it found something nasty inside. Very much the same thing as American deer tick Ixodes scapularis.