Wanted for Spreading Lyme Disease
by Richard Reeve
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Wanted for Spreading Lyme Disease
Artist
Richard Reeve
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Digital Art - Graphic Art
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Wanted for Spreading Lyme Disease - Richard Reeve
The deer tick (Ixodes scapularis) is a widely found parasite of many mammals in addition to the deer. Sometimes it delivers a payload of Borrelia burgdorferi, a spirochete parasite that causes Lyme Disease.
As a resident of Pennsylvania, with the highest number of cases recorded of Lyme Disease in the US per year, I have been victim to this twice now, so was inspired (if that is the correct word) to create this series of graphic images related this little beastie, centered around the bulls eye rash that sometimes accompanies the infected tick bite...
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May 7th, 2017
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Meg Shearer
And we have so many deer, I get very paranoid once the frost ends. And you've had it twice??? Wow. Excellent warning Richard! l/f!
Richard Reeve replied:
Yes, twice diagnosed so far. Only once with the classic bullseye rash though. We have dozens of deer near us and we are picking ticks off the dogs, cats, and us regularly. This year seems particularly bad though ;-(
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