Just when you thought you are safe from Black Bears, here is something else to worry about in the great outdoors. TICKS! They cause Lyme disease (nasty thing). Apparently, ticks are almost everywhere in Canada now.
It was news on the CBC to-night.Stop the presses.
Sorry, not exactly news.
According to the CBC report, ticks use to be only in a few isolated areas but now they are almost everywhere in Canada.ticks & lyme disease have been around for many years
You are lucky, not infrequently the antibiotics do not get it entirely and back it comes.Going to the 1000 Islands near Kingston quite often, I have been dealing with ticks on my dogs for several years. 1 did test positive for lyme disease a while ago, but was quickly treated with antibiotics.
An luckier still that he got a diagnosis. The real problem with lyme disease is the number of people who suffer from it and think it's something else.You are lucky, not infrequently the antibiotics do not get it entirely and back it comes.