>shluuuurp>leaves bullseye to mark domain>nothing personal kid
>>2875313What makes me nervous is that I've been bitten by many a New English tick and often don't find them for a day or so and never got a bullseye rash but have been staggering around with Lyme-like symptoms for years :\
>>2875313Not so fast, nigga.
>>2875318Have you heard of doctors before?
>>2875322lyme tests always come back negative. I know two people who lived with it for years (my sister had through an entire pregnancy) and every test was negative. also I live in a non-Lyme country now and they don't even test people for it
Guys it's not that hard, go out in shorts and be white and every 5 minutes give your legs a quick look over. I can usually feel it when they're biting anywa.
>>2875325but if you're doing a multi-nighter you're wearing layers and sleeping innawoods and dealing with all kinds of terrain and that's when you get ticks up your dickhole
>>2875320>slow dive from treeyour cancer agent has no power here chud
>>2875318>>2875313Lyme seroprevalence in EU forestry workers: 15-22% (Belgium, France)Of those seropositive, asymptomatic rates ran ~45-90% depending on study/definitionBig systematic review (61 studies, 22 EU countries): ~50% asymptomatic overall — flagged as a real data gap, most seroprevalence studies don't track this wellUS Lyme vaccine trial: 7-11% seroconverted asymptomatically (not EU, often cited alongside)Belgium's self-reported symptom numbers are noisy — most people who claimed Lyme history weren't even seropositive>TLDR: roughly half of Lyme infections in Europe never show symptoms, going by the best available data.
>>2875344I had lyme disease and it showed up randomly on an unrelated blood test. They told me and gave antobiotics. That was it, no follow up to confirm it's gone. Idk the symptoms really so I can't tell if I ever had them but I believe it affects joints and I have gout so idk how to tell stuff apart then.
>>2875357>showed up randomly
>>2875360wym? I went for unrelated reasons and they told me 'you got borrelia'.
>>2875360I was just simulating what they may have seen under the microscope :]
>>2875367:3 gotcha
>>2875360kek>>2875357the symptoms covary with aging, this is why chronic lyme is 99% of the time old childless liberal white women
>>2875398what's the solution?
>>2875434https://youtu.be/svzTat79UFM
>>2875327Not my problem.
>>2875357maybe I should add I simply use picrel to spray on shoes and jackets and soak my socks, pants and hammock suspension (not the tree straps) in it. Idc. It's a trade off and I choose the cancer and titty growth accelerator over lyme and encephalitis.
Forget about Lyme... worry about Alpha Gal.
>>2875488had one of these fuckers on my neck. thankfully i had everything tucked in so that was the natural conclusion. but i had permethrin on my pants which meant he must have fallen from a tree.
>>2875517lucky.i don't know what I'd do if I wasn't able to eat red meat.ps: there's a conspiracy that this tick and illness was created in a lab.
I've caught 6 ticks on my body this season before they had the opportunity to bite. Skill issue really.
>>2875602>i don't know what I'd do if I wasn't able to eat red meat.Not eat red meat
>>2875488Northern beaches of SydneyBeautiful suburbs and beachesHighest concentration of ticsGet alpha galCan’t eat meat for a decadeFml
>>2875324I live in the southeast and got a tick bite with a bullseye rash in 2013. been bit by hundreds of ticks during my life, only that once did I get a bullseye rash. doctors refused to test me for it, claiming lyme is rare and I could come back if I got sick. I did have some weird stuff going on shortly after, but eventually went away and I have been fine(I think) ever since. who knows. insect bites can have localised reactions regardless of lyme they say, including bullseye rash simply from saliva.
>>2875915Damn :\Any other side-effects?Also, you'll be lucky if's only a decade.
>>2875488Got bit by one of these on the Delmarva peninsula. Didn't realize it was on me until I got home and went to shower. Had no idea how long it had been there, but it left a rash on me for over 3 months and itched like all hell. Didn't seem to affect my ability to eat the sacred cow though. Thank God almighty for that, I can't live without steak.
To be quite desu I hate leeches more, even though they apparently don't cause any diseases
>>2876227I didn't realise it at the time but while we were taking that video my socks were fucking full of leeches. One latched on and I pulled it off but then it bled for 3 days >:|
>>2876227which part of the world you in that you hate leeches more than ticks, transylvania?
>>2876323southeast Straya. we have ticks and there is the risk of tick paralysis and alpha-gal, but they are much less common in my area than leeches and leeches are fucking revolting to me
>>2876227I just hate how they move. I hate the probing nature of parasites.
>>2876502everything about them is foul. they hang on undersides of leaves and in the needles and twigs in murky swampen spots, and literally just wait for something to walk slither or hop past. and they're basically one single muscle with suckers on both ends and they'll latch on and feed like balloons and then drop into the dirt, slither into the muck, shit a bunch of babies out and then die. disgusting. all of it.
>>2875915western sydney chads stay winning get fucked cunt lol
>>2876537>western sydney
>>2876627
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>>2876323in australia, most leeches are terrestrial. they hang out on the leaves of ankle high plants to grab onto you as you go past then they climb up your pant legs or into your shoes. there are some that live in the soil and they'll go and find you if you're sleeping outdoors or sitting in one place for too long>>2876324in europe and north america (i think) leeches only live in water so you can only really get them if you go for a swim in a gross shitty pond or something, which is why they don't think of leeches as being a problem
>>2875313I hate these little niggers like you wouldn't believe.How do we not have an organic compound commercially available to apply to our skin and clothes to make ourselves unappetizing to these faggots? Are we retarded?There has to be something these woodland chiggers hate. Lavender? Wood ash? Someone needs to do some experiments.
