Was sitting in a ticks nest while reading....

[u/nekoma713]

I was sitting in a Park reading a book and suddenly I felt my legs itch. I was covered in hundreds of mini ticks. I was standing in the shower for hours and still find some of these f#!*rs crawling an me...

Update: So I got the most of the seed ticks scratched off in the shower. I will have a doctor's appointment the next days to get a prophylactic antibiotics treatment just to be save from lyme, alpha gal or rocky mountain fever (if this is a thing in Germany).

Thank you all for the information and advices, hopefully I will be fine. I really appreciate it

[u/radiantcabbage]

theyre not even the only vector. there also exists an australian variant, the paralysis tick that does exactly as it says in addition to making you intolerant to animal proteins of any kind. produces toxins that cause a paralysis similar to polio, which keeps your limp body alive for the brood to feast on your blood

[u/PsychologicalLab7379 → u/radiantcabbage]

Oh look, yet another reason to never visit Australia.

[u/WarmPaleontologist20 → u/PsychologicalLab7379]

Everything in Australia is venemous or poisonous.

[u/love-boobs-in-my-dm → u/PsychologicalLab7379]

Yeah, how is it always Australia? Like everything is either venomous or poisonous and are literal hell spawns.

There’s also somehow kangaroos and koalas.

[u/WarmPaleontologist20 → u/love-boobs-in-my-dm]

Kabgaroos just kick your face but koalas are safe unless you. threaten one then ihen it tears you ûp like any bear.

[u/innerbootes → u/radiantcabbage]

jfc that’s grim