• antbricks@lemmy.today
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    15 hours ago

    My area needs this sooooo bad. We have one of the highest Lyme disease rates in the country. Unfortunately, Alpha-gal disease is now also in this area, so even with this vaccine, every family walk even near the woods or fields still has to be followed with full body and hair inspections. Every time. So many ticks… Ugh.

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      2 hours ago

      You need more urban foxes to prevent the spread of rodents and wolves to prevent the spread of deer. Both of those predators can curb or slow the spread of ticks and tick-borne diseases. A lot of rodents serve as tick highways to spread into new areas, which is how the lone star ticks are starting to really make their way into new regions.

      CWD, a prion disease, is spreading through deer and elk out here, but wolves are immune.

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      14 hours ago

      Here it’s Lyme and tick-borne encephalitis. You can get vaccinated against the latter but a lot of people don’t bother or don’t know. And we have a LOT of ticks.