Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 17:19:20 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Mackiernan Subject: Re: Tick-related In-Reply-To: <38BA34ACF3E0D311B4230000F803503603D0757A@VHAPEREXC1> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit My doctor says that he only sees the bull's-eye rash in about 40-50% of cases! He prefers to give Doxycycline to anyone who has had an imbedded deer tick for 24-36 hours. Gail Mackiernan Colesville, MD on 05/23/2003 10:53 AM, Chris Starling at Christopher.Starling@MED.VA.GOV wrote: > I contracted lymes disease in 1995 and had NO bull's eye mark. I did not > even have a blood teste (titer) for 5 weeks. I had no idea that I had Lyme's > Disease. This year I have notices many many more ticks then in previouse > springs....so keep an eye out for them! > > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================