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Rob: If you want to learn about Lyme Disease and how Uncle Sam created it, Google "lab 257 plum island". Here's one hit: <a href="http://www.canlyme.com/lab257.html" class="l"><em></em></a><span class="st"><em>L<i><b>AB</b></i></em><i><b>: <em>257 Plum Island</em>.
The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ
Laboratory by Michael C Carroll Nestled near the Hamptons, the</b></i> <b>...</b></span> <br> If you hang clothes out to dry, tick-carrying birds can land on them. If your clothes are too close to the ground, deer, racoons, or rats can transfer ticks to them. <br>Carmine<br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><br>> To: greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org<br>> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:19:28 -0400<br>> From: archilogic@yahoo.ca<br>> Subject: [Greenbuilding] Ticks & Fabric (was Re: ENERGY STAR Clothes Dryers Program Launch)<br>> <br>> On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:00:43 -0400, Sacie Lambertson <br>> <sacie.lambertson@gmail.com> wrote:<br>> <br>> > Interesting Alan, we have loads of ticks here but, thankfully the <br>> > incidence of Lyme Disease is nearly nil.<br>> > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Alan Abrams <br>> > <alan@abramsdesignbuild.com>wrote:<br>> <br>> >> work on tick surveys: an area is staked out, and the ground is<br>> >> methodically dragged with piece of a bedsheet of a specified size and<br>> >> weave. The ticks cling to the fabric, which is unfurled, allowing the<br>> >> surveyor to classify and tally the catch.<br>> <br>> <br>> Wa-a-ait a minute. I'm not convinced from the above that tick's are <br>> attracted to fabric.<br>> <br>> If I were laying out in a field of tall grass and some giant dragged the <br>> area with a huge sheet of some sort, I'd probably grab it too in order to <br>> avoid being run over and dragged over the ground by it.<br>> Does that give me a natural affinity for fabric ?<br>> Don't think so.<br>> <br>> A natural affinity for survival from attack by big foreign masses trying <br>> to run me over ? "Yes".<br>> <br>> Apparently there are ticks in my neighbourhood too because my neighbours <br>> and their mutts keep finding them on themselves. But I've never found one <br>> on me on=r my mutts. In my naivite I attributed my luck to my penchant for <br>> Wellingtons.<br>> -- <br>> === * ===<br>> Rob Tom AOD257<br>> Kanata, Ontario, Canada<br><br></div> </div></body>
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