I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006)

Re:I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006) by SapporoChris on Friday October 18, 2019 @01:17AM (#21288881)

Odds are pretty low of getting a tick borne disease. I would assume they're even lower if you take precautions. About 60000 incidents a year. Powassan virus 33 incidents (https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/data-summary/index.html)

I would speculate that more than 33 people manage to kill them selves road biking each year, but I confess I'm just guessing.

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Re:I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006) by Alex3917 on Friday October 18, 2019 @01:33AM (#21288955)

60,000 reported cases, which means more like 600,000 estimated cases. You can definitely vastly lower the risk if you take all the right precautions, but most people I see don’t even have their pants tucked into their socks.

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Re:I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006) by HeyLaughingBoy on Friday October 18, 2019 @10:57PM (#21296505)

Maybe they understand how miniscule the risk is and can't be bothered?

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Re:I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006) by xenonite on Friday October 18, 2019 @03:22AM (#21289315)

And even if I ask a doctor to remove a tick he discourages a test of the dead tick, because „nothing would turn up anyways“. This supports a high rate of unnoticed cases.

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