Posted on 04/30/2016 7:15:07 AM PDT by null and void
Transmitted from ticks, it can take years to diagnose, leaving people suffering painful symptoms doctors are unable to explain.
A 'TICKING TIME BOMB' On any ranked list of nasty diseases transmitted by mosquitoes, ticks and fleas in the Western world, Borrelia burgdorferi, would have to lie near the top. These bacteria cause Lyme disease, which was first recognised in the US in the early 1970s among patients in Lyme, Connecticut. However, the oldest known case was the Ötzi the Tyrolean Iceman - a 5,300-year-old Copper-age mummified individual - discovered in the Italian Alps.
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'Lyme disease is a ticking time bomb': Leading expert explains how life-wrecking illness is spreading - and what YOU can do to protect yourself
The Devils Hopyard is full of this ****
But hey
it has mica too
i was lucky I never found a tick
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...
What do they call the invaders that the ticks bring? Spyrocetes?
Its real and Lyme Connecticut is ground zero
To my untrained eye, that's what they look like.
A lot of DRs are jackasses
Rodents,Mice,Chipmunks,Squirrels and Ground Hogs carry the bacteria and ticks and rodents are both at the same level,ground level.
Deer transport the ticks across the country side.
I broadcast DCON in all my fieldstone areas.
Rodent control seems to be tick control.
Another reason I am selling the farm and heading South.
Why keep it if you cant enjoy it?
You a shade tree Scientist?
I am. LOL
I believe its in the same family as Syphilis(Spirochete)but not as much fun to catch.
LOL! I like the way you think LOL
What were your symptoms? I got bit by two ticks last May (after the jumped onto me undetected, while walking the dog), but never had noticeable effects.
There is an effective treatment of lyme disease, ceftriaxone injectable for several weeks.
Ceftriaxone iv crosses the blood brain barrier and goes into the CNS to kill pathological invaders.
Bambi lovers in America, who love deer in our back yards, parks and anywhere the deer graze have created Lyme Disease time bombs with their ticks. Bambi bring the ticks into these areas. Then the ticks which lurk in the grass, weeds and plants after Bambi was there jump on our pets, children and us. Then, the ticks bite their new hosts and spread this terrible disease.
Get any ticks off your pets, kids and you, quickly, if they attach and bite.
Monitor those bite sites. If a red bullseye appears over the bite site. Go to an Infectious Disease doctor and have he/she start treatment. Don’t wait, delay in treatment can allow the pathogen to cross into your blood brain barrier and make you very miserable for a long time.
The link below has data on treatment of lyme disease with ceftriaxone iv:
seriously I managed to camp all over Connecticut and never contract this, but I know folks who got it there and it effed them up
Bambi needs to stay out of the garden and get in the skillet.
LOL
Life aint that hard
First, they have to be deer tick botes. Deer ticks are smaller than regular ticks. Now, I am not an outdoorsman, and I almost always wear long sleeved shirts and do not own a pair of shorts. I always wear socks. When I lived in this wooded town in eastern CT, I went from the house to the car, from the car to the house. Nonetheless, my tick bite went undetected for sometime, as it was the back of my thigh.
If your bites might have been deer tick bites, you get a tell-tale “bullseye” shaped rash. I had one, I just couldn’t see it. If you have that rash, assume you have it.
Many do not get that rash, and symptoms run the gamut. In my case it was on-again off again flu symptoms with exTREME fatigue that would come and go. Others get joint pain, sweats, all sorts of things. Theer is a Lyme test, but it is not conclusive, it doesn’t detect a Lyme cell, it only says whether your blood work is consistent with someone who has Lyme.
Lyme is still mostly in the northeast and heavily wooded northern areas like Michigan, though its range has spread.
Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme disease) is very closely related to Treponema pallidum (syphilis) and, left untreated, causes a very similar course of disease. Both species of bacteria, if not treated early, can become difficult or impossible to eradicate once they have established residency in the body.
Leptospira species are also spirochetes, but leptospirosis has a different set of symptoms. It can be rapidly fatal if not treated within days after exposure.
Those spirochetes are just like little corkscrews twisting their way through your body.
I agree.
The problem is when you live in a suburb area with Bambis, you can’t shoot them due to the Bambi lovers.
Our deer population is higher now than when we moved here a couple of decades ago.
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