New tick-borne virus puts the bite on Missouri farmers

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...a 67-year-old man who figured he was bitten 20 times a day for two weeks while rebuilding fences on his 40-acre farm.
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Wow, 20 x 14 = 280 bites. You'd think that after a couple days that farmer would have started taking some precautions. I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri and still remember when I learned about ticks. It was my first day at a YMCA day camp near the Missouri river, I think I was 10 years old. Got home that night all excited with lots of stories about the fun we had in the woods. Then my mother noticed several ticks on my head and my Dad got out the tweezers and alcohol and went to work! :eek:
 
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