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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 16, 1992
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Warm weather brings tick-disease threat
Picnic weather is almost here, and picnickers have more bothersome ants to worry about.
By Katherine Manweiler
Many insects, including ticks, thrive in warmer weather. Tick bites are not just a nuisance. They can make you sick.
Bites from infected deer ticks, small ticks that are found mainly in grassy or wooded areas, can cause Lyme disease.
Kansan staff writer
A circular red rash near the tick bite is a common symptom. Other symptoms include fatigue, headaches, fever, muscle aches and joint pain.
The advanced stages of Lyme disease can cause facial paralysis or seizures.
Lyme disease needs to be treated with antibiotics quickly, or it can develop into a serious illness.
But Yokey said Lyme disease was rare in Kansas.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said physicians at Watkins checked many students for suspected tick bites during late summer and early fall.
According to statistics from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, in 1981 in Kansas 22 women died from a slight increase from 1990.
Other insect bites, such as those of spiders, can look like tick bites, Yockey said.
"Most of the Kansas residents who get 1. yme disease get it from vacationing on the East coast," he said.
Yockey said that after spending time in wooded areas, people needed to check themselves twice a day for ticks.
An infected tick usually must stay attached to the body for 24 hours before it can transmit the Lyme disease. If the tick is found within 24 hours, the disease probably will not have infected the person, Yockey said.
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SOURCES: Chicago Tribune, Illinois Dept. of Public Health, Newsweek
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Deer ticks attach to humans and feast on their blood for 12-24 hours before depositing a corkscrew-shaped organism called a spirochete into a capillary. The spirochete, not carried by all deer ticks, causes the disease. Removing a tick before the spirochete is deposited can prevent the disease. Peak months for infection are June and July.
Where the disease is found
Wear long pants and long-sleeve shirts if possible. Tuck pants into socks and shirt into pants to limit accessibility to skin.
About the size of a small freckle or comma, it thrives in wooded and grassy areas. It is a parasitic creature which feeds on medium-sized mammals and humans during its nymph stage. As infected hosts move from one area to another, they carry the ticks and the disease. The ticks hatch in the spring and live for two years.
How to reduce the risk of infection
The deer tick
The disease has now been reported in 43 states, with the highest incidence in some Northeast and northern-Midwest states.
Use insect repellent containing DEET on open skin.
Advanced stages: Visual disturbances, facial paralysis, tingling and numbness, arthritis, irregular heartbeat and seizures.
early stages: Fever, headache, extreme fatigue and stiff neck. A characteristic rash, which looks like a bull's eye with an expanding red circle surrounding a luther area, may also develop.
Symptoms of the disease
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Scally said that if people found ticks on their bodies, they should put tweezers as close to the ticks' heads as possible and pull firmly but gently.
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Douglas County Health Department, said tick bites were most common from April to September.
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Professor Delbert Unruh
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TOWARDS A NEW THEATRE
THE LECTURES OF ROBERT EDMOND JONES
Thursday, April 16, 1992 11:30am to 1:00pm Mt. Oread Bookshop Level Two, Kansas Union
Robert Edmond Jones is generally regarded as America's foremost stage designer. The four lectures that comprise this book are a forgotten treasure of the American theatre that will challenge the artists of today's theatre when they are known again. Transcribed and edited with an introduction and commentary by Delbert Unruh.
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