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“FYI.An article in THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS stated that a 19 yr old girl from Florida who was a student at UNC was bitted by a tick and died Thursday at UAB hospital.Be sure to check yourself and stay safe.”

“Got a link?

I searched the Birmingham News and got zip.”

“That's interesting. West Nile just turned up in a dead bird in Wyoming this week too.”

“Tilt,I tried the web page of the paper and also got nothing.The info was listed in the sports section of Fridays paper page 8b because the young lady was a swimmer for UNC.Her name is Andrea Erben,19, of Panama City Florida.Nothing about when or the geographic location where she was bitten.If any other info is published ,I will post.”

“Thanks!

We've had a mild Winter and a Really wet Spring so the mosquitoes and other bugs have gone nuts around here. Not Good.”

“I went hiking in the swamp the other day and forgot to put on the deet. After the first mosquito landed on my it took me about 20 seconds to put n the deet. Now I have about 30 bites, 3 of them are as big as my hand. Huge!! Darn mosquitos.”

“In my town a to-be-graduating high school senior boy died suddenly of some non-communicable (so says Iowa Public Health) meningitis Monday. Sad day today at graduation.”

“Birmingham News ,June6,page6c.Tick-borne fever kills Flat Rock man:A DeKalb County man hospitalized for an unknown virus apparently died of the tick borne Rocky Mountain spotted feaver on his 38th birthday,officials say.Melvin Tucker of Flat Rock began feeling ill on May,9,developed pneumonia and then died May 21 in a Jefferson County hospital.Doctors say he was bitten by a tick.Between 500 to 1000 people across the nation suffer from Rocky mountain spotted feaver every year and it causes 10 to 20 deaths. Be sure to check yourself and be careful.This is the second death recorded in Alabama from tick bites this year”

“that's really food for thought
thanks”

“I'm thinking more about Permethrin, lately....”