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Avoid Logs to Avoid Ticks

  • April 09, 2004

Want to avoid ticks? Avoid sitting on logs. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, used themselves as bait to see where the greatest risk of picking up a tick was, and found logs were the worst places to sit. They were looking for ticks carrying Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria that cause Lyme disease to develop effective strategies of prevention. Sitting on a log for only five minutes resulted in exposure to ticks 30 percent of the time. After logs, the next riskiest...
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