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- From: mcg2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Marc Gabriel)
- Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
- Subject: Re: Avoid Lyme Disease: Go naked?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.024945.77342@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 02:49:45 GMT
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- Peter Silsbee (psilsbee@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu) wrote:
- : In article <1993Jan27.160725.18432@ra.msstate.edu> dnewcomb@whale.st.usm.edu (
- Donald R. Newcomb) writes:
- : >deer tics do not tend to bite people at
- : >nudist camps but do bite the same people when not at the camp. He
- : >theorizes that the tics like to get under the clothing where they
- : >are protected.
- : I have gotten several ticks on my back while working shirtless outdoors.
- : Perhaps the key is _total_ nudity. Are ticks prudish?
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- I would not bet my health on this *theory*. Has this theory been put to the
- test? Has the researcher visited nudest camps and inspected the bodies?
-
- Sounds like a feeble theory to me.
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- -Marc.
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