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I was bitten this year by a tick carrying rickettsia on the GR11 three days east of Roncesvalles. The village doctor said there had been other cases this year but none in previous years. She prescribed antibiotics which were effective but they need to be taken asap. Subsequent blood tests showed...
I was bitten by ticks on the chemin du Puy in April and again last week on the GR11 linking the frances at Burguete to the aragones at Candanchu. I visited a doctor in Navarra who told me that for the first time this year she had seen cases of patients contracting rickettsia from infested ticks...
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