I'm sorry to hear this.   I had a doctor tell me that the tick has to be on you
for some time for the exchange of bugs to take place.   Something like 36
hours.   Is this true? 




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From: Tom Cushing <tcushing@...>
To: NorCalCanineHikers@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 7:05:00 AM
Subject: [NorCalCanineHikers] Hiking season -- tick alert





Hi all -- I'm not selling anything and I'm not from Nigeria. I was,
however, diagnosed with Lyme Disease since last hiking "season" and thought
I would pitch in an alert for precautions for you and your dog. Note that
infected deer ticks (not so much common, larger dog ticks) have been found
in significant abundance in all CA counties except two, and there are hardly
any people in those two -- so nobody's looking for ticks.

It takes very little bite time for the tick to transfer sufficient numbers
of "spirochetes" to take you off the trail -- and worse. More info can be
found on the CA Lyme Disease Assn website -- http://www.lymedisease.org/ --
see esp. Prevention under the Lyme 101 tab. And pls recall Will Rogers
regarding the many myths and controversy surrounding this disease and its
other tick-borne kin -- "It's not so much what people don't know that hurts
'em -- it's what they think they know that just ain't so."

Happy hiking!

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