[TowerTalk] Antenna/Tower work safety - Lyme Disease safety

[W1YW at aol.com]

Well, I agree that tower and antenna work most certainly takes you into  
territory that these ticks inhabit--if you live in a Lyme disease area. In 
part,  this because deer hang out on the paths that we make; sleep there; hide  
there. So if you live in a Lyme disease area, you may be more likely to be  
infected doing antenna/tower work than, say, barbequeing dinner.
 
Perhaps the best advice is don't do any tower or antenna work without  
wearing DEET; wear long pants taped at the boot; wear long sleeved shirts; check 
 for brown dots on your body after the antenna/tower work.
 
How's that OM:-)?
 
73,
Chip W1YW