Pores and skin Crowing Wonder: Alberta Lady says the tenting travel used to be ruined by means of dozens of ticks

A Calgary woman says that the journey of a provincial campground turned into a “nightmare”, after finding out that her family was included in about 30 ticks.

In May, Garry Kunneke, her husband Lloyd Rose, and her two dogs visited the Gooseri Lake Provincial Park in East Alberta, to set up a camp in their trailer, about 290 km south -southeast of Edmonton.

The next day, Kunneke and her husband took their dogs for a walk in the park.

“We decided that we really wanted … Get closer to the lake and just see what birds (were) there.”

He said that by the route, he went into long grass, but said that he was in a brush for only a few minutes.

Later that night, on his trailer, Kunneke’s husband told him that he felt something in his hair, and asked him to find him.

“I got up, (and) as I went to him, he told me, ‘Oh my, you have found something in your face, it’s a tick’ … on my cheek,” Kunneke said.

And that feel that in her husband’s hair? It was also a tick.

“This is really a bad dream … every time you feel something on your skin, you think it’s one of them more creep,” Kunneke said.

“Even after hours I got something on my back and low and staring, it was another tick that was embedded in my back.”

The phenomenon of the provincial park surprised a tick specialist, who states that the area of ​​Alberta is usually not known for a large tick population.

“Usually at this time of the year, I expect ticks towards the mountain of Alberta, so it was quite shocking for me to find out that he was bad in a provincial park towards Suskechewan in Alberta,” Janet Sparling said, the chairman of Lime Disease Canada.

“Suskechewan has places where it has been a problem for a long time, but … it was really surprising to hear that Gozberry Provincial Park had such a big tick problem.”

In a statement to the CBC, the office of the Minister of Forestry and Parks said, “Alberta is the house of several species of Ticks that can be found in the entire province within the provincial parks.”

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Ticks in preference, say sparling, thrive in wet climate, and parasites are able to avoid cold winter.

She says that the population of tick is likely to stop a ride with either migratory birds, or deer in the Guoberi Lake Provincial Park.

Sparling said, “I knew that Ticks were coming from Suskechewan, but I did not realize that they had come in large numbers,” Sporting said, who says the large tick population in southern Alberta is more common.

Warning to camper

What happened in Goseberry Lake Provincial Park, Kunne wants to install warning signs for campers during the province peak tick season, which spreads from April to June.

“It shakes your confidence, this is so, why I was not warned about it? … I could be on the lookout, but no one is saying a word about it,” Kunneke said.

“(A tick) was walking on my face and he attached herself there, I felt nothing and I am a well educated, aware person.”

Sparling says that campers should be equipped with bug spray and a tick removal kit, and they should be covered. She says that camper with special clothes treated with bug spray can further protect themselves.

“If you bite, remove that tick immediately because you are reducing the chance it is actually transmitting anything.”

She says that to bury the tick into your skin, and take it to a laboratory to test.

“They can test for diseases you will expect in that tick, and it really helps you and the doctor know what you are doing.”

Sparling says that the level of lime disease in Alberta Tick is not super high, but in Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec, more than 50 percent of ticks carry lime diseases.

The province says that “Alberta Parks include the message in educational programming, how to check the ticks and how to safely,” urged the campers to check the provincial website to get more information.