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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 .. . Does anybody know which diseases are transmitted by African ticks? Hans-Georg -- No mail, please. Tick bite fever. Gives you a nice head-ache.... Easy to treat by the way. Corné. Do mail, please. www.amukela.com |
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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 |
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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. -- .--~~,__ :-....,-------`~~'._.' `-,,, ,_ ;'~U' Make Bono History _,-' ,'`-__; '--. (_/'~~ ''''(; |
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