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It's easy for some of us to forget that Lyme disease is an ongoing danger parts of the world. I used to have to keep it in mind when I lived in Tennessee, but t
by bicx 4y ago
It's easy for some of us to forget that Lyme disease is an ongoing danger parts of the world. I used to have to keep it in mind when I lived in Tennessee, but that's one thing I don't think about much now that I'm in San Francisco. Of course, I have a lot of other problems instead, just not ticks!
- wlesieutre 4y agoThere are ticks and they have lyme disease! https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/environment/article/Lyme-carrying-ticks-thriving-on-California-coast-16215157.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/environment/article/Lyme-c...
- bicx 4y agoDamn it, can't escape!
- wlesieutre 4y agoFunnily enough, I just moved to Tennessee and I'm much less worried about it now. Barely exists compared to New England. California is a tiny bit lower incidence rate than Tennessee, but both are waaaay down the list. https://www.statista.com/statistics/742936/incidence-rates-of-lyme-disease-cases-by-state/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/742936/incidence-rates-o...
- oblib 4y agoWhen I lived in So. Cal, and even when I spent time in the Sequoia NP and NF, I never found a tick on me. I think I only found one on the entire 15 years I lived there, and I spent a lot of time bushwhacking around in those parks and the Tehachapis.
- angst_ridden 4y agoDepends on the place and year. Most years, I've had no issues with ticks. But after a rainy winter (like 2010/2011, or 2018/2019), I've been hiking with people who have gotten ticks in the Santa Monicas and even in the San Gabriels. Spring of 2011 was the worst. After a hike at the Circle-X Ranch, one of my companions had two ticks, and two of us had one apiece.
- bcrl 4y agoIt keeps expanding due to changing weather patterns. I've already had 3 ticks on me in the past couple of weeks here in eastern Ontario from as little as walking in a ditch for 30 seconds (the dangers of being in telecom). It wasn't a major concern years ago, but the rate of ticks positive with Lyme's locally has increased over the last few decades. A few family friends have had Lyme's, and it's an absolutely awful disease.