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Re: [at-l] Tick prevention
Don't bet your life on it. Check yourself each day, consider DEET, and eat your
vegetables.
Bill Thorneloe
Atlanta, GA
At 11:09 AM 5/15/98 -0500, Marty M. Loring wrote:
>Last year I was hiking through tick infested woods with a group
>of Boy Scouts and several other leaders. We all were covered
>with ticks, except for one of the men who had no ticks at all. He
>commented that he regularly took high doses of a Vitamin B
>complex, and that he had heard it repelled ticks. One of our
>members was an Internal Medicine doctor, who had read that
>ticks are repelled by Thiamine, which is one of the B vitamins.
>I'm planning to try this on my upcoming section hike in mid-June.
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