#lyme

Three things I'm grateful for:

1. I still have a place to rest my head despite this administration.

2. I have a friend bringing me soup later today.

3. The best thing that has happened to me since I got Lyme is that I'm now sleeping a lot. I didn't really sleep much when I got COVID in March.

#3goodthings #threegoodthings #3GoodThingsToday #gratitude #Lyme

British Columbia Centre for Disease Control #BCCDC has good set of pages with information regarding #tick borne illnesses - https://www.bccdc.ca/health-info/diseases-conditions/tick-borne-diseases There are links to other resources including eTick.ca which uses your image of a tick to identify and report tick species: 82,014 reports of ticks on humans! They also have mapped where ticks which might carry Lyme disease could be found - https://maps.bccdc.ca/Lyme/ @dmacphee@mas.to#BC #outdoors #hiking #tick #Lyme #LymeDisease

CBC: ‘You’re going to be naked’: Thorough tick checks the new norm as parasitic pests spread - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/mount-allison-professor-tick-checks-9.7248664

"Find a mirror, find a friend," Lloyd said, adding that parents living in a high-tick area should be checking their young kids nightly.

Includes link to this brilliant-but-boring #NB information page - https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/ocmoh/cdc/content/vectorborne_andzoonotic/tick-borne-diseases.html And now I desperately want a similar page for #BC. (Going to look for it now.)

@dmacphee@mas.to

#adulting #ticks #Lyme #Borrelia #PublicHealth #health

“A decades-long rise in tick-borne illnesses is likely the result of suburbanization and climate change.” https://vtdigger.org/2026/06/26/lyme-disease-is-on-the-rise-in-vermont-heres-how-to-protect-yourself-and-still-enjoy-the-outdoors/ via @vtdigger@mastodon.social #Lyme #Vermont