Bruce Kennedy
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- Sep/Oct 2016
Any reports of a tourist , 62 years old in the countryside Castilla-Leon area that recently suffered a tick bite, contracting CCHF and passing 3 Sept?
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Not really a rumor, someone has passed, though not in the Camino Frances....ticks are around everywhere, forewarned!The good news is the Avila Province is a long way from any camino ... no need to panic.
I'd even go so far as to suggest this thread be shut down as potentially damaging rumor.
The good news is the Avila Province is a long way from any camino ... no need to panic.
Thanks for your work as a moderator, I would rather address real problem areas than ignore them. Lots of experiences to be had on the Camino, appreciate everyone's insight.This is a very rare event and until we know more I would suggest the likelyhood of getting the exact same desease (CCHf) is extremely low.
Any reports of a tourist , 62 years old in the countryside Castilla-Leon area that recently suffered a tick bite, contracting CCHF and passing 3 Sept?
Well, there has been at least 1 CCHF infected tick around Avila. There may be more, who knows? It's not a '4-alarm fire' just yet, not at all, but it's good to know the (remote) possibility and take precautions. So if you're on one of these caminos and know you'll be bushwhacking--or find yourself in a situation where you have to walk in places where ticks might be a possibility--it simply behooves you to do a few simple things:What about Levante, Sureste and Teresiano?
Hola, Viranani,I gave my earlier thread (https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/tick-borne-disease-update.43020/) a 'boring' title so as not to create undue alarm, because (at least on the CF), there's no cause for that.
Well, there has been at least 1 CCHF infected tick around Avila. There may be more, who knows? It's not a '4-alarm fire' just yet, not at all, but it's good to know the (remote) possibility and take precautions. So if you're on one of these caminos and know you'll be bushwhacking--or find yourself in a situation where you have to walk in places where ticks might be a possibility--it simply behooves you to do a few simple things:
As with lyme disease, prevention is the key--and much easier than dealing with the consequences.
- Tuck your pants into your socks.
- If you have it use deet-based repellent, use t (also on your pants/socks).
- Check yourself for ticks as soon as possible after walking in a situation where you might encounter them (walking off a well-formed path, in grass or low vegetation).
Next time you're down there, buen Camino sin ticks, @KinkyOne!I was just correcting @whariwharangi post about no Camino runs through Avila province
Thanks for bringing this up, SY...because come to think of it, this is when most of us would unthinkingly be wandering into tick territory--going off the path behind a bush someplace.I was caught by one this spring via my backpack that I had put down in long grass to go to the t...
So add to @Viranani 's excellent list of prevention measures:
Don't put your backpack down in shrubs/long grasses!
Sorry, @SYates, I should have been clearer--easily treated if you catch it early. I also have 3 friends with chronic lyme disease and yes--it's not pretty, not at all.Lyme easily treated - sigh - I have a friend that suffers from chronic lyme - not pretty. Buen Camino, SY
I'd ditch the app. Without an associated risk assessment the information is about as useful as 'airplane falls out of sky'. To cite a reasonable comparative the current "threat" level in the UK is so high that, if we didn't live here already, the FO would be advising against 'non-essential travel'.View attachment 28874 Through an InternationalSOS phone app specifically for Spain
in long grass to go to the t...
... Just don't check for tics while you are crossing the road....
...Unless your life's ambition is to collect a (posthumous) Darwin Award.Just don't check for tics while you are crossing the road....
February?! Who knew? Yes, it's Southern Portugal, but wow.in February.