you've got the story upside down -- bush is the tick

harald hardrada, Chapel Hill,

Get over your childish hatred people. Bush will be out of office soon, so find another target for your hatred, or better yet, grow up. To disagree is one thing, to wish harm like this is not intelligent. Deal with the fact that this person, Bush, that you love to hate so much, will be out of office soon. Better yet, go see a counselor to deal with the "trauma" you have endured over a foreign president. Start planning for you future and spend your emotional energy and "cleverness" on that instead. I don't agree with everything Bush says and does wither, but good God people, get on with your lives!

Byron Hill, Belmont, California

David of Madison: President Bush has no "subjects" as such; in fact most of those enduring his presidency are holding their nose until he can be replaced.

Dave Vos, Durham, USA/ North Carolina

"...parent’s coastal summer house in Kennebunkport."
Surely he still has two?

Michael French, London,

Has anyone checked the tick for signs of megalomania?

John C, Cleggan , EIre

Let's hope the tick does not get Bush disease, that would be the mother of all diseases.

Bill, Notts, UK

Hooray for our healthy President. And I really mean that.

Carol Lazarus, New York, USA

Mike Hermsen:

The tick is o. k.

it vomits.

vernon, México, México

Why is a tick bite such a secret ? If President Bush really cared about his subjects he would have used that opportunity to bring attention to the issue of tick-borne illness.

David, Madison,

I'm sure the citizens of civl war torn Iraq, and the soldiers stationed there, will be extremely concerned about the President's tick bite.

Bryan B, Newtownards, N. Ireland

What.....really, fit for duty. I do not concur!

Lizzie, London, UK

And we need to know this why?

Antonio, Singapore,

What was the prognosis for the tick? I'm concerned for its health.

Mike Hermsen, Omaha, Nebraska/U.S.A.

Did the tick die??

Richard, Melbourne, Australia

for some "absolutely strange" reasons people have been dying for TWO YEARS following tick-bites in Turkiye, as if we had been some African country or a remote place where the term civilization is less popular then deserts, jungles, other wilderness.

Not knowing what the official name of the disease is, its name in Turkiye suggests that it's a virutical disease, it does not infect tom someother person unless he/she is bitten, it came from Congo, there is much pain and sewere bleeding. Whatever the nastiness is, in the end, only FEW have SURVIVED according to various national news sources in Turkiye, again, for two years. Before that, there was no single tick in the country that was armed with such a bio-weapon.

kunter ilalan, izmir, turkiye

Despite my dislike for the man, any illness is a bad one; though it may explain many things. I wander what will be revealed in upcoming months e.g. the war on terror phrase was contrived having eaten too many falafels.

Farrukh, Woking, UK

A meeting of like minds.

Ken Wyatt, Todmorden, UK

Shame that his brain is not in "top form"

Susannah Forrest, Harrogate, UK

Bloody pest. Had to be a Democrat, to be sure. Here in Heidelberg we live in dread of it, constantly exposed to those lame-guy-in-a-wheelchair videos that show you how you can end up dribbling into your lap-rug for the rest of your life if you catch its virus. You'd think someone would come up with some genetic weapon by now to eradicate this fury, the tick I mean. Democrats we'll just have to contain to their minimum expression.

Eugene, Heidelberg, germany

Good news and perhaps he isn't as daft as couch critics adore to proclaim.

helen, norwich,

No doubt an Al-Qaeda targeted tick. Look out for the imminent war on insects.

Dave C, Belfast,