Posted on 06/23/2018 1:22:54 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
Crissy Brownstein Naticchia told The Mighty that her husband of 23 years was diagnosed with Babesia, a tick-born illness that quickly attacks the red blood cells.
His diagnosis came after the 50-year-old had come down with an intense fever that eventually landed him in the Intensive Care Unit.
However, because it took six days for her husband to get the correct diagnosis, he never recovered. Naticchia's husband unexpectedly passed away the day after his diagnosis.
According to Fox 2, scientists have recently discovered an exotic tick species in the United States, specifically in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. It is not known what type of tick bit Naticchia's husband.
It is believed that the East Asian tick cannot only clone itself, but also has the ability to carry a disease that can kill a human within 48 hours.
As Fox 2 reports, the ticks discovered in New Jersey have not been discovered to carry the deadly disease.
Kayla Socarra, a researcher at Drexel's Center for Advanced Microbial Processing, told Fox 2 that she was “scared” by the number of ticks, mosquitos, and other blood-sucking creatures that are not dying out during the mild winters:
“These ticks and mosquitos are having a field day of sorts. [...] Bugs can move into new climates and new places where originally they would have never survived because of warmer temps and increased food supply for them they're surviving quite easily.”
According to a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in May, illnesses from mosquito, tick, and flea bites have tripled in the United States.
The CDC continued:
Over the last 13 years, more than 640,000 cases were reported between 2004 and 2016. Nine new germs spread by mosquitoes and ticks were discovered or introduced into the United States during this time.
Like Naticchia wrote, if people are more educated on this many tick, mosquito, and flea born illnesses, “perhaps it might have made a difference.”
Due to globull warming no doubt.
Name it the Pelosi? Schiff? Bernie? Soetero? Dreaded fanged Hillary?
Gotta wonder by what vector it came to New Jersey.
...and illegull alien invaders.
Well, don’t bring back DDT. Wouldn’t want to harm any of these endangered ticks.
And who, perchance, do we have to thank for this latest infestation?
Bedbugs, Hep A, and now fleas and ticks.
Cold winters don't kill them. Otherwise, they would be extinct.
bring ‘em out
They are still crossing the border. Lots of bloodsuckers.
Tick Tock!
“These ticks and mosquitos are having a field day of sorts. [...] Bugs can move into new climates and new places where originally they would have never survived because of warmer temps and increased food supply for them they're surviving quite easily.”
Absolute unadulterated bull chit! If you want to see phenomenal numbers of ticks and mosquitoes there's no place like the Arctic Circle where the winters are long and the temps are well below zero.
My daughter was doing research on Babasia a few years ago at a large NYC Med School Hospital. Generally it only kills people with severe immune system suppression. They were losing transplant patients.
Ticks stay active in much cooler weather; as long as it is above freezing they're looking to feed, and some, like adult deer ticks, don't go dormant at all, although luckily the Lyme-carrying nymphs do. Although they stay active to one degree or another during the cold months I believe severe cold can reduce their numbers.
For the past few years I've been swatting mosquitoes into November. Pretty unusual for where I live.
It was a cold winter!!
Tick diversity is our strength.
How can I get a jar of these ticks? I know a restaurant in Lexington that could use them.
Unpossible!
But, too true, lol. I couldn’t believe the number of mosquitoes in Alaska. The sound is incomprehensible to someone who hasn’t heard it. I think that’s what started my tinnitus!
If 60 below (-140 with windchill) didn’t kill them, I kinda doubt any weather will.
Originated in East Asia but found in Australia, Russia and South Korea. Trump will be blamed.
However, because it took six days for her husband to get the correct diagnosis, he never recovered.
I wonder how they would have treated him differently had they known the infection was caused by a tick?
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