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Just found one tiny tick on myself, then started checking out everything and found another. Both latched on!

So I did a quick online search, and this year is supposed to be a bad one for ticks.

Please be careful everyone. In 1989, I nearly bit the dust with a bad case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. I had every symptom, except for the typical rash (spots), so that made diagnosis very difficult. I spent days in the hospital getting worse and worse until one doctor decided on a whim to check for RMSF since I had been camping. Bingo. I'm supposed to be immune to RMSF now, but not the other tick-borne diseases.

Everyone be careful and keep a look-out for any ticks after being outside. I spent some time in my parents' back yard yesterday, so maybe that's where they found me. 

https://www.cdc.gov/rmsf/symptoms/index.html

LOCKDOWN!

Quote from: Alan on Thu Apr 30, 2020 - 18:50:59
LOCKDOWN!

I refuse to go back outside until tick season is OVER.

Just got a tick on myself the other day.  Pulled it out of my hairline.  I was in the woods so it would have been very easy to get one on me.  To make sure there were no more I took a very hot bath.  Not guaranteed to kill.

For your clothes, dryer will kill by drying the ticks out.  I have killed ticks in the house with dish soap and letting them drown in it.

Quote from: Texas Conservative on Thu May 07, 2020 - 12:45:05
Just got a tick on myself the other day.  Pulled it out of my hairline.  I was in the woods so it would have been very easy to get one on me.  To make sure there were no more I took a very hot bath.  Not guaranteed to kill.

For your clothes, dryer will kill by drying the ticks out.  I have killed ticks in the house with dish soap and letting them drown in it.

Hope you don't get the tick fever!

Quote from: mommydi on Thu May 07, 2020 - 14:42:09
Hope you don't get the tick fever!

It didn't implant.  I just felt it crawling on my neck.