[GeoStL] Re: Mo. issues tick warning
- From: "Laura Million" <lmillio@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 08:14:00 -0500
No but I'd like to try it, I'm not thrilled with DEET although it appears to
be the only effective bug repellant. In less than 2 weeks, my daughter and I
are going to Peru and the Amazon Rain forest. I bought some Saywer
Permethrin that the CDC recommends but that is for the clothing, not the
skin. We will still have to spray our skin down. I'll give it a try. After
pulling 9 ticks off my daughter at MOGA, she's a little freaked out about
any bugs.
Laura Million
2_cats
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[mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Bensman
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 9:14 PM
To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Mo. issues tick warning
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I have used it a couple of times and have not been bit with it on and have
not got any ticks with it on. Unlike DEET, you cannot tell you have it on
and it lasts all day. The first day I wore it there were mosquitoes all
over the place.
Jim Bensman
"Nature Bats Last"
> > BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!!
> >
> >
> http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/sciencemedicine/story/
> 897E1D5ECEB29F23862572F20064FFC4?OpenDocument
> > Mo. issues tick warning
> >
> > By Tina Hesman Saey <tsaey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
> > 06/06/2007
> >
> > Officials at the Missouri Department of Health and
> > Senior Services are
> > warning residents to be wary of ticks. A child in
> > northeastern Missouri died
> > May 23 of an infection with a tick-carried bacterium
> > called Ehrlichia
> > chaffeensis. That is one of three types of bacteria
> > that cause the illness
> > known as ehrlichiosis. All three types are found in
> > Missouri.
> >
> > So far, the health department has confirmed 16 cases
> > of ehrlichiosis and is
> > investigating two other cases. On average, Missouri
> > has about 9 cases of the
> > diseases at this point during the year.
> > Cases of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever have more than
> > doubled this year.
> > State health officials have confirmed 54 cases of
> > the illness this season.
> > In an average year, only 22 cases would have been
> > seen by this time.
> >
> > Health officials have also had reports of 10 cases
> > of Lyme-like disease and
> > two cases of tularemia.
> >
> > Symptoms of the illness usually resemble the flu
> > with body aches, tiredness,
> > and fever, said Joyce Berkowitz, infection control
> > practitioner at SSM
> > Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital. Rocky Mountain
> > Spotted Fever usually
> > starts with a rash, but rashes appear in less than
> > half of people with
> > ehrlichiosis.
> >
> > The hospital has seen only two possible cases of
> > tick-borne illnesses this
> > year. Advertisement
> >
> >
> > "We usually start seeing stuff when the kids get out
> > of school and are in
> > vacation mode," Berkowitz said.
> >
> > Brian Allan, a biology graduate student at
> > Washington University, has been
> > tracking ticks for four years. It's too early in the
> > season to say if the
> > increase in diseases from tick bites are due to a
> > larger number of ticks.
> > In Illinois, the Department of Public Health has
> > had an increase in the
> > number ticks reported by veterinarians, doctors and
> > others, but people have
> > not fallen ill at a higher rate than usual.
> >
> > The increase in human illness may be due to a
> > greater percentage of ticks
> > carrying disease, Allan said. The infection rate is
> > determined largely by
> > population fluctuations in animals that serve as
> > reservoirs for the
> > diseases.
> >
> > For instance, a large number of infected
> > white-tailed deer last fall could
> > lead to an increase human disease now, he said.
> > White tailed deer carry
> > Ehrlichia chaffeensis. So Lonestar tick larvae could
> > have feasted on
> > infected deer last August or September, picking up
> > the infection. The ticks
> > over-winter and emerge as nymphs between May and
> > July. Ticks at the
> > nymph life stage are most likely to transmit disease
> > to people, because
> > nymphs are small and easy to miss and people often
> > don't feel the
> > ticks crawling on their skin, Allan said.
> >
> > Nymphs take a blood meal, drop off the host and
> > over-winter, emerging as
> > adults the following April. Adult ticks may also
> > infect people, but are more
> > noticeable and account for only a small number of
> > infections with tick-borne
> > diseases, Allan said.
> >
> > -----------
> >
> > For more information:
> >
> > The Missouri Department of Health and Senior
> > Services
> >
> >
> *www.dhss.mo.gov/TicksCarryDisease/*<http://www.dhss.mo.gov/TicksCarryDi
> sease/>
> >
> > The Illinois Department of Public Health
> >
> >
> *www.idph.state.il.us/public/hbhome.htm*<http://www.idph.state.il.us/pub
> lic/hbhome.htm>
> >
> > The National Center for Infectious Diseases at the
> > Centers for Disease
> > Control and Prevention page on Tick-Borne Illnesses
> >
> >
> *www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/list_tickborne.htm*<http://www.cdc.gov/ncid
> od/diseases/list_tickborne.htm>
> >
>
>
> Carol Strawberry
> "Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at
> different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."
> (William James)
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