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.”
“Cold winters don’t kill them. Otherwise, they would be extinct.”
EXACTLY - get a dig at our side. I know that Deer Ticks in that part of the country are EPIDEMIC simply because they’ve allowed their hosts to multiply without control...and the hosts are deer, where they live by the hundreds on each deer, without harming the deer. But not so great for humans, they are causing huge amounts of Lyme Disease...a vicious condition if not immediately treated.
I STRONGLY suspect that this new tick is surviving and thriving due to the Leftists now running that part of the country.
The winter here in the East was anything but “mild.” It’s chilly out today... and it’s late June!
Ticks have always carried Babesia, and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is even worse ad kills even faster, and they also carry about 21 other blood borne diseases on top of these.
Oh and Glowbull Warming.
I’ve only seen it on video but the Caribou and Geese are harassed nearly to death by clouds of mosquitoes that at times almost obscure the lens. Some of the scenes are veritable horror movie outtakes.
As I recall, babasia is common in cattle.
Notice all of the Tick locations with "mild" winters - Minnesota, Maine, Michigan-UP, North Dakota...
I have to admit...ticks and chiggers slows my varmint hunting way down in the summer time...I pull about 10 ticks off a week...that with all the doses of preventive treatment...live close to a recent tick find
I have seen them so thick that you couldn’t see ten feet away. The caribou herds spend their lives running from them. Some have scars inches deep from the repeated stings. That is scary enough, I found the sound harder to stand. One mosquito buzzing around is annoying, millions buzzing is tortuous.
The loudest outdoor concert I’ve heard was The Who in 1982. Pete Tounsend regularly experimented with their equipment to get the loudest, most clear sounds. That tour, he stacked thousands of smaller speakers and the sound travelled for miles and sounded like it would break the very concrete.
A swarm of millions of mosquitos sounds like that, only with the frequency raised to the very limit of the hearing range.
A lot wrong with this report. The parasite is hosted by ticks in the Northeast and Midwest. https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/babesiosis/index.html
“Bedbugs, Hep A, and now fleas and ticks.”
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Don’t forget tuberculosis.
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Yikes! That is definitely horror movie material.
Those animals are tough. I think a human would go into anaphylactic shock from that many bites due to the histamine response.
FWIW I saw a couple of WHO concerts. Definitely worth the auditory damage! :)
Ping
Maybe FrontLine is in order....
I question the dearth of data in Kentucky.
Easy guess: The tick is an illegal alien that hitched a ride on an illegal alien.
I can guarantee that mosquitos are active in winter, from personal experience. Winter, ice everywhere. Very, very cold...... deer lease camp ....cedars...mosquitos!
Had to wear head net more then once.
Agreed - the sudden scarcity starting right at the KY - TN border is VERY suspicious, and I don’t think KY is doing something drastic, such as massive pesticide spraying.
One thing that is interesting, though, is the lack of mosquitos I saw (or felt!) during the times I was in Philippines: Davao (including rural areas outside of Davao, Cagayan De Oro and a trip across central Mindanao, Cebu (again including a couple rural areas, and a boat trip to a couple outlying smaller islands), and Manila (ok, that was all city). I would speculate that the ever present chickens get a lot of them. I don’t think they (RP) have ticks?
Here (mid-south) we have 9 free-range chickens, and we get very few of the larger (1/8” dia. or more) ticks since we started raising more than 3-4 chickens. Some numbers of the really tiny species show up, though. We still get lots of mosquitos too — there are way too much woods and other area(s) nearby for the chickens to get more than a tiny fraction of what flies in when we go out. I make sure to get plenty of the 40% DEET repellent when stores have deals on it!
Bats?
The oft-repeated story is that a naked human wouldn’t last fifteen minutes on the tundra. I doubt there’s any research backing it up, but I tend to believe it.
If you see mosquitos, you won’t see the no-see-ums and white socks, but they will drive you mad. One guy left his window cracked while sleeping and was sent back to be hospitalized. Another kid had to be emergency airlifted back to Anchorage because he got blood poisoning trying to dig at a white sock bite on his arm. Blood poisoning actually looks exactly like they say: bright red lines traveling up the veins. The poisoning was halfway up his bicep the last I saw him! The bug stories really vie with fish and bears. LOL
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