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Unread 01-24-2008, 07:42 AM
 
Location: Florida
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Default Lyme disease in the Bay Area?

What are your experiences with Lyme disease occurring in the bay area? Do you commonly see ticks? In your backyard or just on the trails? What about rattlesnakes...do you see them in your yards?
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Unread 01-24-2008, 10:59 AM
 
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
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Don't know about other parts of the Bay Area but it's estimated that 3% of San Mateo County's ticks carry the bacteria. I get out quite a bit but I've never found a tick on me and I've never seen one off me. Rattlesnakes are supposed to be quite common but I've only seen one in the last 10 years or so. Oddly enough bobcats are supposed to be very rare and I've seen 3 in the same time period.
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Unread 01-24-2008, 11:20 AM
 
Location: San Jose, CA
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I had a neighbor in Morgan Hill who caught Lyme disease from a deer.
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Unread 01-24-2008, 11:32 AM
 
Location: Mountain Ranch, CA The heart of Calaveras County
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I had a neighbor in Morgan Hill who caught Lyme disease from a deer.
LOL Sonar, I really hope you meant to put the word tick at the end of that sentence as that's the only way the disease is transmitted.

I got this horrible image in my mind of someone having contact with a deer.
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Unread 01-24-2008, 11:36 AM
 
Location: San Jose, CA
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LOL Sonar, I really hope you meant to put the word tick at the end of that sentence as that's the only way the disease is transmitted.

I got this horrible image in my mind of someone having contact with a deer.
It was a deer carrying ticks, so it was accurate either way.
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