Tick-killing pill shows promising results in human trial

Re:Tick-killing pill shows promising results in human trial by 83 on Monday March 18, 2024 @10:27AM (#39745030)

Almost all coated clothes use permethrin or a similar pyrethroid. It's fairly effective but I often have issues with ticks coming off my dog much later and getting on me. I look forward to this (or a lyme vaccine) making it to market - the ticks are already pretty bad this year in the midwest.

Watch for long grass along deer trails. During a particularly bad tick year (Wisconsin) I could walk along the deer trail by our swamp and just count the ticks hanging out on the ends of the green swamp grass. I did not spend much time outside that spring.

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Re:Tick-killing pill shows promising results in human trial by tdb7893 on Monday March 18, 2024 @11:22AM (#39745781)

Are there already ticks? I haven't seen them yet in Illinois (though my last hike was a week and a half ago) and it's been below freezing the last few days

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Re:Tick-killing pill shows promising results in human trial by 83 on Monday March 18, 2024 @02:44PM (#39748291)

Between my wife, dog, and I we've gotten about a dozen in the last three weeks (we are frequent visitors of forests/fields around here). One of them was in February which I've never seen before. Apparently it takes several days of 10 degree weather to kill them off so I doubt it will slow down much from the last couple days of cold.

Unfortunately one of them was a deer tick that dug into my armpit, so now I'm playing the "wait and see if it's Lyme" game :(

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