Yes and no on Lyme disease. Our enemies have infiltrated the Left to the extent to where deer are running wild in the Northeast, everywhere...that was never the case in the past. Needless to say, that’s also spreading elsewhere.
Deer carry Deer Ticks, usually hundreds, they brush up against bushes/trees in the woods, some ticks migrate off...and they wait for their next customer, who is often humans. They jump on to humans, embed themselves, and with that comes the dreaded Lyme Disease (something even liberals dread more than Trump).
Nasty stuff, although if caught early (like my sister did), can be dealt with. If not caught early, it’s one nasty pile of crap (i.e., symptoms) to have to live out life with.
In the past, deer were hunted to the point of not even seeing them except in the deep woods and rural areas - no longer the case. Was/is it biowarfare? As I said, yes and no. I don’t claim to know how the disease started, but there is an easy way to stop it...but the Left won’t let that happen.
Exactly. Spent lots of time running around the woods and walking through areas without any ticks, but now, result in easily picking up anywhere from 6-10 ticks. And we used to check and be checked everytime we came from the outside or before we got back in the car, and a tick was extremely rare.
Twice now I've gone through antibiotics, and it's usually been for 21 day cycles. I also keep a dirt area maintained for the dog just off the deck now that I'm TN. The first week in the house, I must of picked off close to 30 ticks as I was removing shrubs and brush that were less than 20 feet from the house.
I have specific clothes and gear that all have been doused in permethrin to help prevent the litter critters from latching on. Should that start to fail to do the job, we are in big trouble. Of course, the next house is going to not have neighbors and I will let the chickens and guinea fowl decimate the tick population.
I understood it is actually caused by the white footed mouse. They carry a bacteria in its blood. When the tick bites the mouse they get it. The tick gets on the deer or any other animal and transmits Lymes to them.
Also, in the winter when there is a foot of snow on the ground, there are all of those tasty shrubberies planted up close to our houses.
My wife spends hundreds of dollars a year feeding the birds mealy worms, sunflower seeds and suet. She does it to attract the bluebirds. All the other birds and chipmunks benefit.
We have four "wild" turkeys. Two are full grown Toms and two are Jakes. They are so accustomed to living around our house that they pay no attention to the SIX BEAGLES barking and howling at them from behind that 6 foot high chain link fenced area. they come to with 20' of the fence. They also pay no attention to myself riding around on my John Deere tractor. I have gotten to within 15 feet of them before they moved. Every night these turkeys roost in a couple white pines on the side of our property.
Recently researchers have discovered that infected people also have sleeper cells of Lyme disease and if the medical treatment is successful and not continued beyond the apparent cure, the diseae can come back when these sleeper cells become active. -tom