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...Lyme disease isn't the only or even the deadliest tick-borne infection. Ever since 1986, when the first cases cropped up in the U.S., researchers have been keeping a watchful eye on a debilitating and sometimes fatal flu-like ailment called Ehrlichiosis. The infection is transmitted by the Lone Star tick in the southern half of the U.S. and the ever present deer tick in the north. It was once thought to afflict only dogs and horses, but four strains of bacteria that affect people have been identified in the past decade. Last week came word that a fifth...
Since it takes as long as 24 hours for bacteria to get from the tick into your bloodstream, it pays to remove ticks as soon as you can. Don't try holding a burnt match to the tick to make it back out. Apart from scorching yourself, you'll just provoke it into regurgitating its potentially toxic baggage into your body. Instead, take a pair of tweezers, line them up alongside the tick's body and as close to your skin as you can and gently pull out the tick. Be sure not to squeeze or crush the tick...
With Eyes Wide Shut, the corpse sits up, erect again. If the film is a hit, it will help Hollywood remember what makes us tick, and tingle, and hurt, and come back for more. We might even get the full-frontal revelation of two souls abrading in the night...
...chair of Iowa's Christian Coalition controls the most sought-after endorsement in the state, concedes that Bush hasn't publicly toed the line on abortion but says she believes that as a "man of God" he will. To explain why she thinks this, she proceeds to tick off the various religious moments that have poured out of the Governor's office: Bush's walk on the beach in Kennebunkport, Me., with the Rev. Billy Graham, after which Bush recommitted his life to Jesus Christ; Barbara Bush's whispering to her son during a sermon on Moses' leading his people...
...TICK TOC One drawback of the Lyme-disease vaccine that came out in April was that it took so long to kick in. Doctors were supposed to administer it in three injections over the course of a year. Now there's a reprieve. A new study shows that the shots work as well when given over six months. But don't go rolling around in the grass just yet. If you start now, by July you will have 50% protection against the tick-borne disease. And after the last shot, you'll still be only 78% protected...