From	Stepan G. Shiyatov	Date	Wed, 16 Jun 1999 16:32:32 +0500
To	Keith Briffa
Subject	Density data from Polar Urals
Dear Keith, I am reminding your promise to send me raw density data from Polar Urals remnants of larches as soon as possible, as I must prepare samples for Fritz until the end of June. Leonid Agafonov will bring them to Slovenia to Fritz. Tomorrow I will lie down in hospital for 7-9 days, as I get the infection from a tick in Iremel area, not encephalitis, but a new kind of infections from ticks, namely "lime-borrelious" (I do not know its name exactly in English). The sign of this disease is red field approximately 5-8 centimeters in diameter around the point where a tick bite a body. This place itches greatly. If you have such characteristics, you must apply to doctor. This disease is not so dangerous as encephalitis and can be easy recovered from antibiotics. I hope that your tick did nod contained such infection. I wish you the best. Sincerely yours, Dr. Stepan G. Shiyatov Lab. of Dendrochronology Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology 8 Marta St., 202 Ekaterinburg, 620144, Russia e-mail: stepan@ipae.uran.ru Fax: +7 (3432) 29 41 61 Phone: +7 (3432) 29 40 92