Ticks in Turkey

Here's an interesting article from the Turkish Daily News about a possible tick in the Parliament grounds, where the lawmakers like to nip out for a smoke. The ticks here have Lyme's and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and who knows what else but in Turkey forty people have died of an Ebola like illness called Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever. That's pretty scary.

It was as if a time bomb was placed somewhere in the garden of Parliament. Tick tock… Tick tock… Tick tock…

It was just news when the people of the country were being bitten by ticks and some 40 of them died as a result of getting the deadly CCHF virus, but a tick in the Parliament compound and a parliamentary employee being bitten by a tick was a source of panic and a unanimous demand by parliamentarians that something has to be done urgently against the “grave threat!”

These ticks know no limits… They must have realized that while it might be a natural thing for them to bite normal Turks, entering the premises of the representatives of Turks and biting someone there – though not a representative but just one of those normal Turks employed there – was a crime beyond all limits!

The article is a bit repetitious but well worth a read.