Posted on 04/24/2017 11:15:21 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
Mild winters and big deer and mice populations mean more ticks and higher rates of Lyme disease diagnoses.
Milder winters, burgeoning mice and deer populations and a bumper acorn crop from two years ago mean this year’s tick season is expected to be bad and more widespread, experts say.
With that comes the threat of more tick-borne diseases, including the most common, Lyme disease.
States like Connecticut—home to the town of Old Lyme where the disease was first diagnosed—are already reporting a higher number of ticks infected with the Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium, which causes Lyme disease, as well as other tick-borne pathogens.
The deer or blacklegged tick can infect humans with Lyme disease, as well as about seven other sometimes fatal diseases.(Emphasis mine)
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the U.S.
Symptoms can include a ring-like rash, along with flulike symptoms, muscle and joint aches and swollen lymph nodes.
It is usually diagnosed based on symptoms or a blood test.
It is treated with antibiotics.
Longer-term infections can cause more serious symptoms, including arthritis, severe muscle pain and headaches,
heart palpitations, brain inflammation and nerve pain.
Diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease is controversial with many differences of opinion between patient groups and doctors.
(More specific information about tick borne diseases is available at the news site)
Ticks diseases
I’m in central MA and spent all day yesterday out in the woods burning brush, picking up sticks and libs, etc.
Not one tick. I keep my woods clean. No poison ivy either.
Sticks and libs?
*LOL*
Trash those “libs”....
Be aware of risk with Outdoor activities and possible expsure
Wow. Since moving to kentucky six years ago I’ve been nailed by over ten ticks. Why don’t I have lyme disease?
How many libs did you pick up?.....................
Wrong kind of ticks..................
The only ones that usually nail me are the ones the size of the head of a pin. I just can’t see them until I can feel them. By then it’s too late...
Already had a tick on my neck after doing yardwork last weekend. First tick I have had in the 16 years living at this house. Going to be a bad year here in Alabama too.
I get west Nile and Lyme mixed up. Which one causes mild paralysis and mild dementia or delirium? Knew someone who was hospitalized for weeks and they didn’t know what was apparently killing him. Once they discovered it, he was treated back to health but his fam ily thought he was a goner. We don’t have tons of mosquitoes or ticks here but you don’t need tons.
Let them eat Democrats
Can’t we spray DDT and kill the ticks?
You either removed them within 48 hours or they weren't infected.
I think this part really explains it (from another site):
If the blacklegged tick is infected, it must be attached for 24-48 hours before it transmits Lyme disease, and at least 12-24 hours to transmit human anaplasmosis.
One of the top ten PGA tour golfers was just diagnosed with Lyme Disease. Taking next week or so of to start treatment.
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