Ticked off!
We don’t have whales to boast about here in East Devon unlike our American cousins on Cape Cod. But among other residents of the natural world that we do have in common there are millions of creatures that flourish in our beautiful surroundings on both sides of the Atlantic. They’re as tiny and as annoying as those Cape Cod whales are breathtakingly gigantic and beautiful. Lyme disease, the disabling and dangerous illness which starts with a rash on the skin and can lead to nerve damage has reached near epidemic proportions on Cape Cod according to local journalist John VanDerLaan, with Nantucket being called the Lyme capital of the world. And it’s ticks which are to blame, along with the deer which carry them. Photo (c) FreeFoto.com Spring has arrived on both sides of the Atlantic, and with the warm weather comes the start of the tick season, surely to be followed by an increase in the number of cases of Lyme disease warns John VanDerLaan. Lyme disease was discovered back in the 1970s...