Chuck Schumer Gets Tick Bite

[Str8Shooter]

Just thought I'd post this in case any of you would like to send cards or notes of sympathy. To keep this gun-related, note that he's taking shots and has a bull's-eye.

Schumer Being Treated After Tick Bite
From Associated Press
May 24, 2007 6:47 PM EDT
WASHINGTON - Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., is receiving treatment to prevent lyme disease after being bitten by a tick during a recent tour of dams in upstate New York.

Schumer, a senator since 1998, apparently was bitten during a May 7 dam tour in the Hudson Valley region. He and other lawmakers have called for improvements to many small dams in the area to prevent flooding.

"I went tramping through the woods with Congressman John Hall to check dams," the senator said.

He later found a tick, and spotted a telltale "bulls-eye" mark on his leg that is an early sign of infection.

Schumer is now undergoing a 21-day treatment with antibiotics, which can cause fatigue in some patients.

He said he hasn't noticed any symptoms besides the initial bulls-eye mark, and is being treated "to prevent it from developing into the disease."

Lyme disease is transmitted by the black-legged tick, also known as the deer tick.

Symptoms include lethargy, joint pain, fever, limping and loss of appetite. Even after treatment, symptoms can recur in some patients.

Last summer, amid concerns that a new, aggressive type of tick had migrated from southern states to New York, Schumer proposed legislation that would have authorized $100 million for Lyme disease research.

 

[TallPine]

I wasn't aware that ticks were cannabilistic ...??????

 

[gezzer]

To bad it wasn't a rattler

 

[BigG]

I wasn't aware that ticks were cannabilistic

Bwahahahahaha!

 

[lawson4]

^^^^^^
Not very THR, but funny nonetheless.

lawson4

 

[kcmarine]

Wimp...

 

[Sage of Seattle]

To bad it wasn't a rattler

That was pretty hiss-terical, gezzer!

 

[Cacique500]

I'm sure the tick died of blood poisoning...

 

[fjolnirsson]

Aw heck, I hope he doesn't get all squiddy on us...start growing extra limbs and stealing women to breed his worms in....

Sorry, I've watched Slither a few too many times...

 

[Flyboy]

You'd think there'd be some professional courtesy....

 

[SDC]

Maybe he'll get a case of Lyme Disease to go with his case of Lying Disease.

 

[Autolycus]

Sadly so many people cannot take the high road. It really does make the gun movement look bad when you wish death upon other people who disagree with you.

 

[Henry Bowman]

He later found a tick, and spotted a telltale "bulls-eye" mark on his leg that is an early sign of infection.

So many easy lines here. But, alas, none are high road. We don't have to wish him ill to notice the irony spelled out in the report.

 

[pax]

Not finding anything related to firearms or civil rights here.

Closed.

(And ... sheesh, this is news??? Worth a press release??? )

pax