In reply to girlymonkey:
I seem to be a bit of a tick magnet, but then I do spend most days running through forest and/or walking the dogs. This time of year the dogs have at least one tick each after every outing so we're getting plenty of practice at lifting them off.
We were speaking to our vet and my wife mentioned she doesn't seem to get them, and he said that like biting insects they prefer certain blood types (I get bitten by allsorts) so I guess the risk isn't evenly spread.
> I wonder if they need participants for trials?
I thought this, but then wondered how it would work. I certainly wouldn't want to be exposed to Lyme's disease and potentially be unvaccinnated (part of the double blind control sample) which would be the only way to truly test.