When done, bury the cloth under a big rock or pack it out ... with a tick spray containing a high concentration of DEET or Permethrin. Buy a hunting license, and you're set to bag your bird.

Thankfully, the GP said, it was easily treated using a cream called permethrin. All the Dowden family apparently had to do was cover themselves in the lotion twice, and that should see off the mites.

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