<div><Can you clarify for me how Lyme Disease and line drying are connected?></div><div><br></div><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>
<div><br></div><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><div><br></div>
<div>(yikes!--is this an argument for ironing as a method of de-ticking line hung laundry?)</div><div><br></div><div>-a</div><br clear="all"><font><span style="color:rgb(102,0,0)">Alan Abrams</span><b style="color:rgb(102,0,0)"><br>
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