Updated July 2019
No blogs for so long? Well, there is a really good reason for that and I’m so sorry to have been unable to keep you up to date. Unfortunately, I was bitten by a tick (also known as a garrapata), which made me very ill and I am still recovering. A tick is a tiny invertebrate that looks like an insect but is, in fact, an arachnid (same ‘family’ as spiders and scorpions) having eight legs, not six). There are many hundreds of different types but most of those found in the UK and Europe are the tiny black legged tick or deer tick which is the one that carries a potentially devastating illness called Lyme disease. Their size bears no relation to the damage they can do. Not all ticks carry disease but infected ticks can cause irreparable harm to animals and humans. And they are on the march, having spread from cooler mountainous areas to warmer climes. Ticks feed on the blood of their host -- humans, dogs, cats. birds, reptiles, and animals in the wild. Ticks are referred to as terrestrial, meaning they cannot fly. They travel on anything that moves and then get brushed off onto plants and onto the ground before being picked up by another passer-by. It has become a very serious problem.
Read more about this devastating illness - click here.
PLEASE DON’T WAIT. The earlier the treatment for infected tick bites, the more likely a full recovery.
No blogs for so long? Well, there is a really good reason for that and I’m so sorry to have been unable to keep you up to date. Unfortunately, I was bitten by a tick (also known as a garrapata), which made me very ill and I am still recovering. A tick is a tiny invertebrate that looks like an insect but is, in fact, an arachnid (same ‘family’ as spiders and scorpions) having eight legs, not six). There are many hundreds of different types but most of those found in the UK and Europe are the tiny black legged tick or deer tick which is the one that carries a potentially devastating illness called Lyme disease. Their size bears no relation to the damage they can do. Not all ticks carry disease but infected ticks can cause irreparable harm to animals and humans. And they are on the march, having spread from cooler mountainous areas to warmer climes. Ticks feed on the blood of their host -- humans, dogs, cats. birds, reptiles, and animals in the wild. Ticks are referred to as terrestrial, meaning they cannot fly. They travel on anything that moves and then get brushed off onto plants and onto the ground before being picked up by another passer-by. It has become a very serious problem.
Read more about this devastating illness - click here.
PLEASE DON’T WAIT. The earlier the treatment for infected tick bites, the more likely a full recovery.