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I have air dried clothes outside in Oklahoma for years. We have
ticks and I have never found a tick on my laundry.<br>
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Bob Waldrop, OKC<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/28/2012 10:01 AM, Alan Abrams
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<div><Can you clarify for me how Lyme Disease and line drying
are connected?></div>
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<div>ticks have an affinity for fabric. my brother, a
parasitologist, used to work on tick surveys: an area is staked
out, and the ground is methodically dragged with piece of a
bedsheet of a specified size and weave. The ticks cling to the
fabric, which is unfurled, allowing the surveyor to classify and
tally the catch. </div>
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<div>so it's easy to imagine one of these critters hitching a ride
on the edge of a sheet or garment that brushes the lawn, as it
is retrieved from the laundry basket as it is hung.</div>
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<div>(yikes!--is this an argument for ironing as a method of
de-ticking line hung laundry?)</div>
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