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[raven-blackbird]

make you a vegetarian...........personally I think this is a conspiracy started by chickens......or maybe the cows................................raven

http://news.msn.com/us/bad-bite-a-tick-can-make-you-allergic-to-red-meat LINK

[september]

did not read the link yet, but just have to say, it hasn't made anyone in my family vegetarians yet. Yes, we hike a lot, and have been bit!

[raven-blackbird]

On 8/7/2014 september said:

did not read the link yet, but just have to say, it hasn't made anyone in my family vegetarians yet. Yes, we hike a lot, and have been bit!

it's a certain tick...........the lone star tick, a deer tick doesn't carry the sugar our bodies build immunities to......................................raven

[september]

Raven, I did just scan the article,and it seems to apply to east coasters, and I know the ticks are different there. Our California ticks wouldn't do this to us!

[raven-blackbird]

On 8/7/2014 september said:

Raven, I did just scan the article,and it seems to apply to east coasters, and I know the ticks are different there. Our California ticks wouldn't do this to us!

I don't think we have Lone Star ticks here and that's the reason.........although deer ticks can carry Lyme Disease and if given the choice I think I'd rather have the Lone Star bite me LOL.......I already don't eat meat............raven

[september]

I'd rather have NO ticks bite me, but if you spend a lot of time outdoors, it can happen.

Just get to a Dr. right away (the 24 hour clinics will do) and start on the antibiotics asap. I think after you get bit by a lyme infested tick, you have at least 24 hours, if not 48, to get started on the treatment.

[sylviahomeatlast]

there are ticks here----are they Rocky Mountain spotted fever??? I don't know---maybe someone does--

[hckynut]

My becoming a vegetarian back in the mid 1970's had nothing to do with being bitten by a tick. The many times in the US Army I spent in tents and in the woods? Had ticks all over use when we got back to our barracks. We us to help each other remove ticks from the our backs and other places we could not see. What, is there a new breed of ticks now?

Guess I am missing something in this thread.

[Kachina624]

On 8/7/2014 sylviahomeatlast said: there are ticks here----are they Rocky Mountain spotted fever??? I don't know---maybe someone does--

Yes, ticks in Colorado and adjacent areas can cause Rocky Mountain Fever.

[mewsmomtoo]

Well, you know those cows are always holding up signs saying "Eat Mor Chikin"...