hello and welcome to in good shape a walk through the great old dogs can be fun but it can be dangerous too because there are predators they are snakes and they are all takes. for. ticks burrow into our skin to get it they can infect us with viruses and bacteria one common disease transmitted by ticks is lyme borreliosis all lyme disease a typical sign is a red to bring that forms on the skin in the days after the bite. ticks are often found in tool. and white. that's true of the typical carriers of lyme disease like that. the tiger tick and the cost to be in which

a white spread in northern latitudes will by contrast tex live in warmer areas of europe asia and africa. and asia just wait for their victims to come along susan i think distances of several 100 meters. they can transmit spotted. the often fatal crimea. migrating. human trafficking and climate change are enabling tech populations to expand into regions where they didn't live in the past and with them carrying numerous dangerous pathogens. luckily there not only dangerous creatures lacking but interesting people like dr howard on and he's the right person to talk to today.

the. doctor how to get on your from the robot call in situ it from the leader. in the woods in nature and you're running around with a white flag collecting ticks while you're doing that. we are doing like this in the last year of europe's were often drawn the more exotic tick speeches. of all and you want to know what ticks be serious and they make in germany and the 2nd reason is to see when the ticks are active or hold the proton also critique is changing by the climate change because. the last 2 years were extreme and you have seen that. some tech space has been gone and security.

experience. increased thank you treaty so. you want to have an overview of all to see if you get your sticks and there are more than 900 different species of ticks some of them apart isn't this and others are transmitting diseases after mosquitoes takes other most dangerous victor for diseases. ticks can be found all around the world it's a range of different species but they all drink blood while males are simply say their own appetites females need larger quantities in order to form mags. biologist hans doubtless spent years examining takes in germany. the higher lama variety is a relatively new. arrival with research showing the ticks of spent the winter in germany for the 1st time ever they could well become native to the country. is very large compared to other tick species and has politically different

behavioral patterns it is a relentless hunter. even if of. it's a very active pursuer there is film footage of them covering up to 500 meters while following a host for up of a quarter of an hour there as fast as would have no course of. the higher nama is already a known menace in other countries. this take originates from the eastern mediterranean word spreads crimean congo hemorrhagic fever. this i know it's a really nasty yawners and can be fatal so the fear now is that this could bring the virus with it over here. these are taken off the. bucket high along the specimens discovered so far in germany have not carried the highly dangerous fever. in a good some in all the documentation we have on high or low magicks not

a single case of crimean congo hemorrhagic fever was found but we need to be vigilant. in the northern hemisphere ticks of primarily associated with another illness lyme disease or borreliosis its pathogens are spiral shaped bacteria called borrelia. can lead to inflammation and cause arthritis for example link and they can cause my account itis inflammation of cardiac muscle and they can lead to inflammation in the brain and trigger a neurological manifestation of lyme disease on and off for less than most takes here wait on bush's and long grass to latch on to hosts if they go unnoticed and aren't removed. use that small like teeth to make an incision into the target skin it takes another 12 hours for the bacteria to be transmitted. done kind of. brilliant might manifest in the skin in the 1st stage and

the whole next you see an expanding rash calderas the migrans. if you detect that in time and take antibiotics then you're pretty safe. but in some cases there is no rash and the disease remains undetected. a rare a disease is a tick borne and satellite is. which can affect the brain and central nervous system it's more difficult to treat the only real protection is vaccination. it's important to weigh up the risk for yourself depending on how often you come into contact with takes. you might live in germany and also travel frequently to other places in europe also it might make sense to get a tb vaccination for them in for. whatever the species of tick the best protection against the diseases they transmit is to avoid getting bitten in the 1st place. it makes sense to cover up and also to use

a tick repellent. if you do get removed to take without delay to reduce the risk of infection but careful so you don't squash it. so we run in the forests and we're looking for takes actually so this is the right place to find ticks it's a small like a meadow where you can. normally use a tick. tick so it is endemic and it's. forest. cross learned. but for. some pics or tactics it's coming from the area. it's we try and. hot and they're all. problems to listen and yes it's normal to start

naming and sort of area of attics. existing as wider than before so now we're looking for ticks and we're using this way track so how do you do that if you take it and you're great to take in the ambush no you know so you are morally simulating someone who is going through the forests basically take a look actually caught something. right there ok what we've got here i mean you look like in the book we start on the left and the dog loose any take in if you look for example you knew that is the most important pick stage because it's morning and your dog if i if it's biting but it can transfer all diseases occurring in jong il ok so they can feed from 5 to 7 days and in this time inside of victoria. they can transmit

a lot of genes and the infection rate is. so what kind of disease is transmitted by ticks i mean the most important the most important. to keep borne disease enjoy. is lyme disease so it was caused by a young boy able to offer heat and to sick and come to see us in germany is tb that is transmitted main. source of the which is the virus is about 60 and so we have looked to. put a gene so it's most important is like it was in the bird and. disease is one of them has to be this important in juba most important poured into it but worldwide it can call a mark for most accounts but the disease by ticks ok so if i take

a look here at the ticks and if some of them would sting or if they bite me how long would it take for empty chair transmission of the pathogens it depends on the part of gene but. part of genes normally needed time to one of the body of the tick in the most part and then is transmitters this can need to for 24 hours in journey book a year for example needs at least 67 hours to go and to be dangerous for effective but but this would mean if i would realize that there's a tick on me and i would just simply remove it if there's no risk of getting this infection then there's at least to this is we could use it as a very important for me to remove the tick as fast as possible just as possible except not seeing a doctor just read it out in if you know that you are was in. some mos at home you can do it at home with forceps of

a sort of caught in the force if you know you need 20 last. you do it immediately and for good things is that i am always close to a doctor just so what you see here is another. source which most take this vent if it's biting you realize quite fast because it's scoring up to one centimeter and. it's quite prominent and in poland you've put this in the one to 12 days it's this feeling and. this is not only dangerous stage of the 2 and dangerous trajan it's. one of the more dangerous diseases is the lying disease transmitted by ticks which is kind of a dangerous disease and you cannot always heal it especially if it's not diagnosed properly. taking the dog out for a walk has become

a rare pleasure for carla yessing she needs painkillers to bear even a 15 minute stroll. from the targets it's different from one day to the next sometimes i am able to do a quick round with my dog maybe 2 or 3 kilometers but then there are days when the pain in my joints is so severe that i just can't go out every step is painful. hola yessing suffers from chronic lyme disease a single bite from a tick turned her life upside down and she can't even say when it happened. runny steer i don't know how long i've had lyme disease. i have no recollection of any by and that's i never found a tick mr. and i didn't have the typical red rash there form. the ring shape drash is often the 1st indication of having been bitten the ticks alive or that causes the reaction contains a natural an ascetic that prevents the host from feeling the bite. once infected

with line disease you probably start getting headaches within a few days and pains in your joints that spread through your body. the length snaps and the subtle suggestion it's a stabbing pain in my shoulder and it's as if someone is stabbing me with a knife from here at the front which. stays. on the muscle ache in my shin also feels like someone's trying to sever the muscles to them or somebody sometimes it might only last a few minutes a month but normal sometimes it goes on for hours. it's often misdiagnosed as with carla yessing for a long time doctor suspected after writers but the pain intensified and seemed atypical for that diagnosis. much less like an dition or worse and. then i started to become extremely tired. and depressed as well that's.

such as dancing hiking and cycling were no longer possible the slightest jolt could become unbearable her old life was gradually disappearing. on come down then my g.p. had an idea that she asked whether i'd been checked for a line disease and that it was 10 years later the. tests showed she had the corresponding antibodies and that led to the right diagnosis but a course of antibiotics failed to bring about long term relief she has to live with the pain which she's only able to enjoy with strong medication and the support of a self-help group. anything i can do to prevent being bitten by it because i have to be outside here in nature and i don't want to miss it at some moods to conform follow to prevent to be bitten by it take for example to move all this on

per se that i was sent on the fix sold it takes are not able to run over it and of course fix not able to bite you. in the margins of the purser's this often does often cross and on the cross of course that can be fixed you have to prevent to go inside the high grass and. to go in areas where the ticks quite calm and. now the. point is to you are cold so this should. shoes. hoboes and protecting your food and long tall grass and long sleeves i even see sometimes people going around and in the forest and they put their trousers into their socks so it's a great way to protect being bitten yes it's a great day but it's important because. normally takes away for me down stairs up

stairs there for anything to go up and so they go inside the trollers and. climb up stairs and to the head if you want what about those chemicals the paladin's you can buy they have. the i had food you have 2 types of character the police and one that you can put you on the skin into another type is to put it on who told us that protect the poison to take the wanted to put on the skin is smelling really bad. for the take and for this reason they don't come to you and they don't bite you and if i've been didn't bite you i just put it out but we have to twist it out. the pigs those who saw you don't want school you put them all to study. movement and. this is most sure a message to get them out even not. that something is for many inside the skin

but even if something is remaining it's not dangerous you put them all you do disaffection and then you hope so also. place here that because bitten and in case of changing in the biting side you go to a physician and to see him even if you rip off the head and the head state states inside the scheme there's no danger attached to that knowledge is no danger only the. skin themself is putting it all out and there's no more but a gene inside the head so that there's no high office of addiction as they get to know and whatever children the most important. seem to have to do is to to look after the votes of all decide whether they have a bit but these or they're asked to. fix on the skin and the reality goodbye and.

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