It's always good to be informed about Deer ticks. Working in the outdoors I had been a participant in a study in the 1980's of office workers vs outdoor park workers. This is when the ticks were mostly confined to the coastal areas of NE. Now they are practically everywhere. Of the four stages the larval stage is by far the tiniest tick. Two years ago at a party I looked at the back of my mom's leg and she had the perfect well known red bullseye. I told her she needed to see a dr. Fool dr told her it wasn't a tick bite it was a spider bite. I told her she needed to see another dr as she kept getting more tired and sicker. Finally she saw one that gave her a test that she tested positive for. But the medicine he gave her was too little and too light in strength and she got even worse. Finally I took her to an infectious disease dr at Lahey clinic in Burlington and she has been successfully treated. However for some reason the ticks like her and she got bit a second time by a deer tick last year and then again already this spring. Even though she treats the cat with frontline, I believe they come in on the cat and drop off before it works on them. They told her she will always test positive as it will be in her bloodstream. Not all deer tick carry the Lyme disease. Our daughter was bit by one years ago and she never got it. We had saved the tick and brought it to the dr. It was his first deer tick. He didn't know much about them and after I talked to him he did more research on them and called me back requesting she get the blood test. He has now become very informed on the culprits.
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Lin
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