Posted on 05/02/2018 6:37:42 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
The number of Americans sickened each year by bites from infected mosquitoes, ticks or fleas tripled from 2004 through 2016,
with infection rates spiking sharply in 2016 as a result of a Zika outbreak, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday.
Infections in 2016 went up 73 percent from 2015, reflecting the emergence of Zika, which is transmitted by mosquitoes and can cause severe birth defects.
Zika was the most common disease borne by ticks, mosquitoes and fleas reported in 2016, with 41,680 cases reported,
followed by Lyme disease, with 36,429 cases, almost double the number in 2004.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
While Zika stood out as the latest emerging threat in the report, it also showed a long-term increase in cases of tick-borne Lyme disease,
which can attack the heart and nervous system if left untreated.
These increases are due to many factors, including growing populations of the insects that transmit them
and increased exposure outside of the United States by travelers who unknowingly transport diseases back home.
Numbers of reported infections increasing !
These numbers do not include unreported reports of infections.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If only someone would invent a cheap and safe pesticide that they could use to eradicate mosquitos and ticks. Maybe they could spray it from helicopters and trucks. It needs a simple name. Maybe three letters. How about we call it DDT?
I remember an America without these Zika and Lyme invaders, when you could peacefully stroll over hill and dale. You got bit, of course, and occasionally had to pull off ticks, but you didn’t get serious, life-threatening diseases.
"The occurrence of mosquitoborne diseases was marked by virus epidemics.
Transmission in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa accounted for most reports of dengue, chikungunya, and Zika virus diseases;
West Nile virus was endemic, and periodically epidemic, in the continental United States."
CDC : "This report examines trends in occurrence of nationally reportable vectorborne diseases during 2004–2016."
News source : https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6717e1.htm?s_cid=mm6717e1_w
"The number of annual reports of tickborne bacterial and protozoan diseases more than doubled during this period, from 22,000 in 2004 to 48,000 in 2016.
Lyme disease accounted for 82% of all tickborne disease reports during 2004–2016.
"The occurrence of mosquitoborne diseases was marked by virus epidemics.
Transmission in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa accounted for most reports of dengue, chikungunya, and Zika virus diseases;
West Nile virus was endemic, and periodically epidemic, in the continental United States."
The increases are due to the inability to spray effectively with all the EPA restrictions. Bring back a DDT for ticks and skeeters.
Strange, I keep hearing this strange telegraph ticking in my head...
D-D-T, D-D-T, D-D-T.
will say that the tick population this spring here in Westchester NY is unreal right now. Having had lyme disease and passing out on the highway I can tell you it’s some scary stuff.
I find it strange that CDC publicizes this when it did not say a peep about all the third world diseases being imported into our country with the recent migrant explosions.
DDT is still used in India
Any place where there are deer, you will find deer ticks.
In late spring of 2011, while visiting a friend in New Hampshire's garden, we walked through some high grass.
The following morning, getting ready for a shower, I noticed a small blood clot where the waist band was for my pajammas, and picked it off.
It wasn't a blood clot, because when I looked at it, it had moving legs; I continued disrobing and found 4 others on my legs.
Headed home the next day, I did some research online and contacted my primary care physician.
It turned out that my research gave me more medical information about ticks than my physician knew about ticks, and I insisted on a four week series of antibiotics.
But this occurred in 2011, and more medical research is now available to physicians and the general population regarding viri and bacteria carried by vectors.
I am going to go out on a limb and guess that the deer tick population has increased because the deer population has increased.
They are regularly seen walking down city streets here now. Bears wandering into peoples’ yards are now not unusual. Recently they captured a bobcat aboard a popular tour boat. Not long ago a coyote was shot within a mile of downtown.
Start cleaning up the environment and all the pesky wildlife returns. Go figure.
Due to climate change, no doubt.
Maybe so, but I also attribute the increase to warmer, and inconsistent winter temps which limit the amount of 'winter kill' of ticks and host deer populations,
and a decrease in the number of deer hunters with the older population not passing on hunting skills to youngsters.
Actually, ticks will prey on any warm-blooded mammal (humans, dogs, squirrels, possum, etc.),
and as long as the host is mobile, ticks can trans-locate further afield.
The inference was made in the CDC article to warming climate
and I included the statement in the quote from the article, exactly as written.
I attribute the increase due to inconsistent winter temperatures which limited the 'winter-kill' effect of both ticks, vectors, and hosts.
Our entire warm-blooded mammal population has exploded since I was a kid. In the city you would occasionally see a rabbit, or raccoon, or possum. Now the entire animal kingdom can be found within city limits.
I say it’s because despite Enviro-Whacko protestations to the contrary we’ve made a whole lot of progress in cleaning-up since the 70’s.
Ticks don’t die in the winter. Need to burn them with fire.
Insect repellent with DEET!
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