Lyme-disease

Hi, thanks for your replies.

Anyway, he suffers from a severe feever. He can’t move his head. Looks not too good. If things don’t get better in two days, we’ll have to get him back to Europe, though I don’t think they have a better health care for this disease over here.

Luckily it’s not malaria, because that was what the doctor thought at first.

Typical planespotter’s disease 😀 Sauron is right, ticks wait on grass and plants for mammals to walk by, and if one does grab ’em and start sucking blood. Often (but not always) ticks carry lyme disease infecting you in the process.

The best precaution is to keep your legs covered – no shorts, and closed shoes. Of course, there are always people with extraordinary luck… one time i was spotting in Hungary with a few buddies, the weather was nice so all of us bare one wore shorts. He even wore his army boots. And guess who managed to score a tick in his leg? That’s right – probably a strain of grass managed to enter his trousers, and gotcha. Later we had lots of fun trying to get the tick out – alcohol (palinka of course), cigarette butts, pliers… we did get the tick, but it’s jaws were stuck (tough little buggers!) in the poor guy’s leg

IIRC, he got a number of injections from which i’m not sure if they were a cure against Lyme, or profilactic. Either way, those injections weren’t of the kind which make you all happy and wholesome.

However, the disease itself sucks even more. The actual sickness (which can be very severe, enough to put you out of work) can only come up after a number of years – although not everyone gets it. However, with a quick response this shouldn’t happen.

Sorry to hear that Geforce but I believe some progress is being made as far as treatment is concerned. In my part of NA the disease is spread through ticks which originally come from infected deer (and mice I believe) which can then get on humans who pass through an infected area.

Regards

Sauron