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Under-the-radar tick diseases spreading across the U.S.
msnbc ^ | Maryn McKenna

Posted on 03/13/2011 3:13:15 PM PDT by TheDailyChange

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Disease ridden illegals will only serve to EXACERBATE the problem.
1 posted on 03/13/2011 3:13:21 PM PDT by TheDailyChange
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To: TheDailyChange

“babesiosis “

Sounds like beer goggles.


2 posted on 03/13/2011 3:15:48 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: TheDailyChange

Babeosis has nothing to do with illegals. Humans are dead end hosts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Babesia_life_cycle_human_en.svg


3 posted on 03/13/2011 3:20:12 PM PDT by heartwood
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To: driftdiver

LOL!


4 posted on 03/13/2011 3:22:13 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Look for the union label and just say, NO!)
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To: TheDailyChange

piung


5 posted on 03/13/2011 3:22:23 PM PDT by Ulysse
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To: driftdiver

A 2 at 10 is a 10 at 2.

Viral infections should be the focus for this group..


6 posted on 03/13/2011 3:28:05 PM PDT by goseminoles
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To: TheDailyChange

Ticks. Mosquitoes. Alligators. What purpose do they serve on earth?????


7 posted on 03/13/2011 3:39:02 PM PDT by raybbr (People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron.)
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To: TheDailyChange

According to the article, as least one of these diseases can be spread via blood transfusion.


8 posted on 03/13/2011 3:40:56 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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I fail to see WHY medical professionals don't realize that more than one illness can be present after a tick bite. Vets understand that.

The Lyme test done routinely on dogs tests for several of these diseases at once - a $35 test that takes five minutes.

9 posted on 03/13/2011 3:44:59 PM PDT by Abby4116
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Babesia can be detected on a blood film included in a CBCD ( complete blood count with differential). Unfortunately the babesia are only small dots contained in the RBC and can sometimes be missed during the early stages of the disease. As the disease progresses the “dots” become more numerous and “should “ be seen by the technologist reading the differential.


10 posted on 03/13/2011 5:02:01 PM PDT by heylady
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To: Abby4116
Since 1995 the Human medical community has identified at least six new tick borne diseases. Veterinarians have always maintained that Anaplasma spp or Tropical Pancytopenia (Ehrlichia) and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever were the two most prevalent but there were many more out there unidentified. Potomac Horse Fever is tick borne as well as the Babesia species. Leishmaniasis and Trapanasomes are also vector borne but use a Triatomid bug. Insects transmit some really dangerous diseases, especially those insects that feed on animals, birds, reptiles and humans.
11 posted on 03/13/2011 5:30:53 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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Ticks. Mosquitoes. Alligators. What purpose do they serve on earth?????

"Contrast".

12 posted on 03/13/2011 5:49:44 PM PDT by Dr. Sheldon Cooper (I'm not insane, my mother had me tested!)
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To: neverdem; DvdMom; grey_whiskers; Ladysmith; Roos_Girl; Silentgypsy; conservative cat; ...

Ping


13 posted on 03/13/2011 5:59:29 PM PDT by decimon
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I’ve been shouting about this far and wide, but no one seems to be interested. Doctors are way behind on this!! I went to 11 doctors and 5 years later finally found out I had lyme disease. Lyme disease has surpassed AIDS as Number one infectious disease. If you have been diagnosed with MS, Parkinson’s, Gout, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, TMJ, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lupus, ALS, Crohns, ADHD, Autism, depression, Panic attacks, Bi polar, fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, Alzheimers, Mono.....you probably have a tick illness. Thank goodness I found a tick disease specialist in MO. Otherwise I’d still be bedridden.


14 posted on 03/13/2011 6:16:54 PM PDT by vickixxxx
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To: heylady

Thank you.


15 posted on 03/13/2011 6:17:41 PM PDT by Abby4116
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To: decimon; All

A friend of a friend was hospitalized recently for “tick fever.” Apparently, country doctors recognize this as a possibility.


16 posted on 03/13/2011 6:30:24 PM PDT by Silentgypsy
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To: TheDailyChange

I know a guy who nearly died from a tick borne disease. They didn’t recognize what it was in the hospital, and gave him a heavy duty antibiotic. When he finally started to improve, they figured out it was something he got from a tick, but they weren’t sure what.


17 posted on 03/13/2011 8:32:02 PM PDT by Grammy
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To: raybbr

Mosquitoes serve as food for Purple Martins and bats. I finally figured that out less than a year ago. However, when they were first created I don’t know that they were the ‘biters’ and spreaders of disease - satan may have corrupted them and made them the disease carriers they are.

Alligators are scavengers - they clean up the other dead animals.

Ticks? Not sure - haven’t really thought about their purpose on this rock.


18 posted on 03/14/2011 8:54:59 AM PDT by Ro_Thunder (I sure hope there is a New Morning in America soon. All this hope and change is leaving me depressed)
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To: decimon; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; Battle Axe; null and void; ...

Those complaining of chronic Lyme disease probably have one of these coinfections. You can’t make a diagnosis if you don’t think of it.

I like how they got climate change into the story. They couldn’t resist.

Thanks decimon for an A+ micro ping!


19 posted on 03/14/2011 12:45:29 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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Tick borne diseases are so ubiquitous that I often start the dogs on doxycycline and ciprofloxacin concurrently.


20 posted on 03/14/2011 1:14:16 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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