Locked & Loaded Against Lyme
click to enlarge Wendy Kagan The deer tick nymph embedded in my daughter’s calf was hardly an invited guest on our summer vacation to Block Island, but there it was. The size of a poppy seed, it could’ve easily escaped attention, yet my 12-year-old has fighter-pilot radar for the potentially disease-toting little buggers. Upon learning that we hadn’t packed our tick tweezers, she dug her fingernails in with gusto, removing most of ...
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