[pct-l] Ticks

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In my experience in Florida, the only time that you can't get a tick is right after a freeze.  If I had a dime for every tick I've pulled off, I'd be rich.  Have had two "suspicious" tick bites which drove me to the doc to get the requisite run of antibiotics. 

Joan in Oviedo, FL, a Florida Trail town



-----Original Message-----
From: tom aterno <nitnoid1 at yahoo.com>
To: pct-l <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Sun, Nov 25, 2012 7:04 pm
Subject: [pct-l] Ticks


For those of you on the east coast, beware that there are still active ticks out 
nd about.  We bushwacked to a pond to photograph swans last Friday.  This 
orning, we each found a deer tick embedded in our skin.  After removal, we went 
o urgent care and was given 200 mg of Doxycycline as a prophylaxis dose.  Now 
e have to watch the sites for developing rash. The temperature was 50 deg F 
ast Friday, and we now know that ticks will be active at any temperature above 
reezing.  Lesson learned, we will stick to trails on the east coast in the 
uture.
The Incredible Bulk - missing the PCT, where I never saw a tick
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