Spring tics & Lyme Disease

[TRAPnHUNT]

With Spring & warmer weather right around the bend, we always seem to find tics coming out in various places including our front & back yards. With the Deer Tic spreading Lyme disease, not only do we need to portect ourselves from getting sick but even more importantly, our families!
Every year around this time I check out the reports and see if anything new has come out in order to help us out. I went to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and this is what I found. It's really nothing new but some of us may have never thought of this or thumbed their noses at Lyme Disease. It's a horrible thing to get and could kill.
Just make sure you protect yourself and your loved ones!
www.cdc.gov/Features/LymeDisease/

Ron

[TrappinTommer]

It's always good to be aware that things like this exist, especially as trappers, hunters, and outdoorsman. We are exposed to ticks a lot more than most people. If I see a tick on an animal that I catch I throw it in the freezer for a day or two to kill the ticks on it.

[TRAPnHUNT]

Throughout the years, I've owned roughly 2 dozen snakes. It seems that every time I got a new one, I was removing tics from it. This goes for wild snakes as well. I've seen a variety of snakes in the wild with tics. They will burrow up under the scales.

[TrappinTommer]

Wow, snakes with ticks? I'd a never thought!

[Admin]

Mar 12, 2011 18:32:40 GMT -5 TrappinTommer said:

Wow, snakes with ticks? I'd a never thought!

I second that

I never would have dreamed a snake could have a tick. That's wild.

[patricimo54]

Any of us that have spent any time at all in the woods have brought back unwanted critters attached to our bodies.

I am thinking if there is a concern about ticks in your area carrying disease, have your life partner help you with a bug check after returning from the woods.

It is my understanding that it takes a period of time with ticks attached before lyme disease to take hold. The faster the bug is removed it lessen the chance for the germ to take incubate.

My buddy Roger has been infected with lymes disease it was a long and painful ordeal for him.

[cam]

I picked up a tick in the middle of my back about 6 years ago. Didn't find it for a day or 2. I thank that tick for giving me rocky mountain spotted fever. Laid me up for a week in the hospital in the CICU.

Since then I treat my clothes with Coulston's Duranon Tick Repellent.. The stuff kills ticks as they crawl on your clothes if they stay on long enough. As long as you tuck your pantlegs and shirt tails in, you are good to go.

Cam

[maritimer]

We see the majority of our ticks around April and May. During the trout season we always end up with a couple on ourselves. Long sleeves, bug spray, and a good check over before you hop in the shower usually takes care of them. ;D

[ninedeer]

here in Wisconsin we have ticks everywhere Iv seen the little Bastard crawling on top of the snow.during spring turkey season they are horrendous.I know a dozen people that have gotten Lymes.Bad stuff for such alittle critter.