Diseases transmitted by ticks

Tick bite fever is VERY unpleasant, but as Corne says, easy to treat.
I use Doxycycline as a malaria prophylaxis, and this prevents tick
bite fever, so it serves a dual purpose... prevents syphillis too, but
that's a different matter :-)

Marc

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 17:21:05 +0200, "Corné" wrote:


"Hans-Georg Michna" schreef in bericht
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Does anybody know which diseases are transmitted by African
ticks?

Hans-Georg

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Tick bite fever. Gives you a nice head-ache.... Easy to treat by the way.

Corné.

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Not exactly the post topic but related. On a trip last month to
Uganda, my wife came back to the US infected by a Lund's fly. Sort of
like a botfly, it buried larvae into her wrist area, and it was living
under her wrist until removed here in the US. Bite swells and itches,
reddish circle. First time we'd jeard of anything like this.

Ed

On 21 Jun 2005 14:29:28 -0700, "Ed" wrote:

Not exactly the post topic but related. On a trip last month to
Uganda, my wife came back to the US infected by a Lund's fly. Sort of
like a botfly, it buried larvae into her wrist area, and it was living
under her wrist until removed here in the US. Bite swells and itches,
reddish circle. First time we'd jeard of anything like this.

That's called furuncular myiasis (quite a mouthful!) and is common and
unpleasant. The Putzi or Tumbu Fly is interesting too, they lay their
eggs on wet washed clothes hanging out to dry and burrow into the skin
on contact. Ironing kills the eggs though.
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