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posted by chromas on Thursday August 09 2018, @03:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the tick-talk dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

A vicious species of tick originating from Eastern Asia has invaded the US and is rapidly sweeping the Eastern Seaboard, state and federal officials warn.

The tick, the Asian longhorned tick (or Haemaphysalis longicornis), has the potential to transmit an assortment of nasty diseases to humans, including an emerging virus that kills up to 30 percent of victims. So far, the tick hasn't been found carrying any diseases in the US. It currently poses the largest threat to livestock, pets, and wild animals; the ticks can attack en masse and drain young animals of blood so quickly that they die—an execution method called exsanguination.

Key to the tick's explosive spread and bloody blitzes is that its invasive populations tend to reproduce asexually, that is, without mating. Females drop up to 2,000 eggs over the course of two or three weeks, quickly giving rise to a ravenous army of clones. In one US population studied so far, experts encountered a massive swarm of the ticks in a single paddock, totaling well into the thousands. They speculated that the population might have a ratio of about one male to 400 females.

Yesterday, August 7, Maryland became the eighth state to report the presence of the tick. It followed a similar announcement last Friday, August 3, from Pennsylvania. Other affected states include New York, Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia.

-- submitted from IRC


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  • (Score: 2) by Snow on Thursday August 09 2018, @07:11PM (7 children)

    by Snow (1601) on Thursday August 09 2018, @07:11PM (#719543) Journal

    What are you trying to prove?

    That life lock guy who posted his SSN everywhere had his identity stolen like 4 times.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by ikanreed on Thursday August 09 2018, @07:40PM (1 child)

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 09 2018, @07:40PM (#719556) Journal

    I think he's succesfully proving that soylent posters are layabouts.

    • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday August 09 2018, @10:55PM

      by Gaaark (41) on Thursday August 09 2018, @10:55PM (#719663) Journal

      LAYABOUTS!?!?!

      Harumph, harumph! I say, old chap me son, I'm gonna go out and steal his identity right now-- oooh, "Some mother's do 'ave 'em" is on. I'll do it later.

      "Fraaaank!?!"

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday August 09 2018, @07:46PM (4 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday August 09 2018, @07:46PM (#719559) Homepage Journal

    ... a laptop computer?

    _After_ it was stolen from a parked car, Community Services Northwest started using encryption.

    But that doesn't answer the question as to why they had my SSN on a _laptop_.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 09 2018, @08:11PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 09 2018, @08:11PM (#719575)

      Why haven't you sued them for violating HIPAA by failing to use encryption?

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Snow on Thursday August 09 2018, @08:23PM (1 child)

      by Snow (1601) on Thursday August 09 2018, @08:23PM (#719584) Journal

      Is your solution to a sinking ship to drill more holes in the hull?

      • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday August 09 2018, @10:56PM

        by Gaaark (41) on Thursday August 09 2018, @10:56PM (#719664) Journal

        I think he's going for the insurance money, lol.

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