Latest advice is to buy [b]alcohol swabs[/b] from the chemist and have a supply (in the car in the house).
If a tick gets attached rub it with the alcohol swab. Apparently that makes them die straight away.
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnD6x0svOJE]Tick remover[/url] (a little instrument) looks terrific. See the video all about using it. It also shows in magnified detail what happens when you try to pull a tick out with tweezers.
Two friends got ticks the same day I got one (all on different outings so they are definitely common in the bush at the moment) and we’re all feeling a bit off.
The recommend the information on ticks on the SOWN website:
Acarina ticks and mites http://www.saveourwaterwaysnow.com.au/01_cms/details.asp?ID=1496
Paralysis tick http://www.saveourwaterwaysnow.com.au/01_cms/details_pop.asp?ID=1497
Beware the tick http://www.saveourwaterwaysnow.com.au/01_cms/details.asp?ID=2306 including some stuff on [b]stopping and treating tick bites (a lot of excellent advice about clothing well worth reading in detail and following instrutions[/b]) and Rickettsial infection picked up in Upper Kedron. Rickettsia is in the spotted fever family and is rare.
[b]Rickettsial infection[/b] includes murine typhus louse borne typhus scrub typhus Queensland tick typhus African tick typhus and the “spotted fevers”. It is a notifiable disease.