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[–] 26 points 5 months ago (6 children)

careful out there hosers - lyme disease will fuk you up

it will take a long time to diagnose, and during that time you will be miserable, and the longer it takes for diagnosis, the more likely it will be a permanent, chronic infection

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    As someone who grew up in a place that has had Lyme since the 1980s (VA) we really need to improve access to testing and treatment here in Ontario given our climate now is similar to Virginia’s back then.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    Hardly any lyme in the upper midwest, it's mostly on the east coast, idk about the west, I know they've that other lone star whatever disease too.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (2 children)

    Most Canadians live in the east. In either case, I wouldn't be the one to risk not checking.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago

    You can just call them Americans.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago

    The word "tick" is very important here.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    Found a tick on my dog last year after going to the normal park, good reminder to give your pet their tick meds.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    RELEASE THE GUINEA FOWL

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    They're not sending their best

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  • [+] 5 points 5 months ago
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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Damned nationalist insects!

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Can we find a way for ticks to stop existing?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I'm not terribly far from the border, and the ticks are always bad up here in spring to early summer, until it dries out. Not the smaller deer ticks that spread lyme though.

    When the ticks go away, the deer flies come, and they are worse. Constantly landing on the top of your head for no other reason than they can. There is no respite from them outside.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Nah the deer flies have a reason..... they try to hide in your hair and have a snack of blood.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    It's not a very good reason, very few try to actually bite your head. I mean house flies are the worse for lack of reason to harrass us, but the deer flies here are super super aggressive in the peak summer months, like constant mobbing, few bites, just fucking with you for the most part.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    What about the MAGA invasion?

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