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- From: psilsbee@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Peter Silsbee)
- Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
- Subject: Re: Avoid Lyme Disease: Go naked?
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 20:04:36 GMT
- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
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- References: <1993Jan27.160725.18432@ra.msstate.edu>
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- 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.
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- 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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- --Peter
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