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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/...h-teacher-40-left-brain-damage-TICK-BITE.html
One it's other tricks !
One it's other tricks !
We always tend to react to visceral threats more than statistical or invisible ones. Bees and mosquitoes kill more people than any other animals by far, but there are plenty of folks who are more scared of sharks.Interesting/concerning. I used to downplay ticks and focus on potential (though remote) bear encounters. Realistically however I rarely saw bears in the boreal forest. I have however had many ticks crawling on me, with some attached. I damn near tossed the car into the ditch coming home once when I felt one crawling up the back of my neck, and I was swatting it off. I have a picture somewhere that I took with three ticks that I scrapped off my clothes and put into an ice tea bottle. Yes my outdoor safety priorities are evolving.
I've always been really careful of ticks. I wear a full later of clothing to completely cover my skin as best as I can everytieve I go out into tick country.
I recently moved to Texas and killed some wild boar, they were covered in ticks. It really creeped me out.