Lyme disease is becoming more common. But its symptoms aren't always easy to spot

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I grew up playing in the woods. We always checked ourselves after and would wear long pants at the minimum. Usually walking through tall grass/weeds is how they get on you.
- It's near impossible to detect ahead of time.
  I grew up in a Lyme zone. Never got it till I was in my 30's, never saw a bite.
  Checking for ticks is good practice, it's just hard to see the tiny fuckers that carry it.
Good luck finding doctors that take you seriously for having lymes, too.
Shame simply eradicating these pests isn't practical, there are so many organisms on earth that could do with there being less of, with these up near the top with mosquitoes and fungi. Vaccine will have to be our best next bet. Fucked that we already had one but it was lost to culture wars.
- You want less fungi??? They are so important for so many things?
  
  I guess that person is not a fungi.
  
  Seriously, I am a huge fan of many types of fungi. Not just the ones I can eat.
  
  They're so fucking icky I don't know what to tell you. Maybe they belong in a lab somewhere, just not about the place.
- You can eliminate the mosquito species that sting humans. There are plenty of other types of mosquitoes to feed the bats and birds.
  
  The mosquito species that sting humans are prolific pollinators.

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