{"id":3745,"date":"2011-04-09T08:57:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T08:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/?p=3745"},"modified":"2021-01-17T13:12:25","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T13:12:25","slug":"tick-bite-prevention-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/tick-bite-prevention-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Tick Bite Prevention Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/glentrool.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"glentrool\" width=\"310\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3746\" \/>Tick Bite Prevention Week will be running again this year from 11 &#8211; 17 April. It is estimated that 3,000 people a year contract Lyme Disease from a tick bite every year. <\/p>\n<p>Walkers or others involved in outdoor activities can be at a high risk of tick bites, particularly when heading through countryside or parks where there are sheep or deer and bracken which can attract ticks.<\/p>\n<p>Tick Bite Prevention Week offers a number of simple precautions can help to keep you safe including tucking trousers into socks, avoiding dense undergrowth or using a stick to bash away ticks first, and checking yourself or your &#8220;tick buddy&#8221; for ticks at the end of a days walk.<\/p>\n<p>Ray Mears also pops up on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tickbitepreventionweek.org\/\">Tick Bite Prevention Week<\/a> website to recount his top ten anti-tick tips and there are plenty of photos of ticks and information on the best way to remove them.<\/p>\n<p>Lyme Disease is potentially a very serious disease which can cause a number of long term health problems including kidney damage and joint problems. Diagnostic tests are not 100% reliable and symptoms may not appear until a while after the tick bite. The disease is on the increase due to a number of factors including: warmer winters and moist summers which have allow more ticks to survive; and increase in some animals that are favoured by ticks as hosts; a reduction in sheep-dipping, motivated by concerns over the carcinogenic effects of the active ingredients on human health, and cost implications for farmers, which has reduced the effective control of ticks; and an increase in the number of people taking part in outdoor activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tick Bite Prevention Week will be running again this year from 11 &#8211; 17 April. It is estimated that 3,000 people a year contract Lyme Disease from a tick bite every year. Walkers or others involved in outdoor activities can be at a high risk of tick bites, particularly when heading through countryside or parks where there are sheep or deer and bracken which can attract ticks. Tick Bite Prevention Week offers a number of simple precautions can help to keep you safe including tucking trousers into socks, avoiding dense undergrowth or using a stick to bash away ticks first,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/tick-bite-prevention-week\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more &#8250;<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-walking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22883,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745\/revisions\/22883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}