https://www.jelsciences.com/articles/jbres1754.pdf
Primary Detection of the Establishment of Blacklegged Ticks, Ixodes scapularis, in British Columbia, Canada
John D Scott* and Catherine Scott
Upper Grand Tick Centre, 365 St. David Street South, Fergus, Ontario N1M 2L7, Canada
*Corresponding author(s) John D Scott, Upper Grand Tick Centre, 365 St. David Street South, Fergus, Ontario N1M 2L7, Canada Email: jkscott@bserv.com DOI: 10.37871/jbres1754 Submitted: 23 May 2023 Accepted: 30 May 2023 Published: 31 May 2023 Copyright: © 2023 Scott JD, et al. Distributed under Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 OPEN ACCESS
North America VOLUME: 4 ISSUE: 5 – MAY, 2023 BIOLOGY GROUP PARASITOLOGY
Abstract
Ticks transport and transmit microbial pathogens that inflict malevolent diseases on domestic and wildlife animals, and humans. We reveal the first-time record of the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, in British Columbia (BC) and, concurrently, far western North America. We unveil the primary tick-host record of I. scapularis parasitizing a Mallard duck, Anasplatyrhynchos. In our study, the most pronounced Ixodes species was I. scapularis (61%) followed by the western blacklegged tick, Ixodes pacificus (34%). The most frequently occurring mammalian host parasitized by I. scapularis was the eastern cottontail, Sylvilagus floridanus, a lagomorph of grassland habitats. Healthcare professionals must be aware that both I. pacificus, and I. scapularis bite humans in BC, and transmit at least six tick-borne human zoonotic pathogens that cause insidious diseases.
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**Comment**
Yet more proof ticks are everywhere and parasitizing virtually everything. Continuing to regurgitate that patients can’t be infected with Lyme/MSIDS because ticks and disease don’t exist in certain geographical areas is foolishness that is killing people or dooming them to a life of misery. Please educate others on this fact because mainstream medicine and the media are lying to the public and are not to be trusted.
For more:
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/11/07/ticks-on-the-move-due-to-migrating-birds-and-photoperiod-not-climate-change/
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/08/17/of-birds-and-ticks/
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/08/24/its-time-to-get-serious-about-tick-borne-diseases/
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/03/21/controversy-to-consensus-taking-a-stand-4-lyme/
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2022/07/14/birds-vs-rodents-in-transmitting-tick-borne-pathogens/
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/11/16/study-shows-lyme-in-15-species-of-canadian-ticks-6-of-which-bite-humans-numerous-new-bird-species-acting-as-hosts/
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/01/14/python-covered-with-more-than-500-ticks-rescued-in-australia/
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/08/12/bbsl-infected-ticks-in-canadian-songbirds/
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/18/study-shows-100-of-robins-infected-with-lyme-songbirds-are-spreading-lyme-into-new-areas/
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/06/12/formidable-evidence-for-sexual-transmission-of-lyme-disease-first-study-to-document-aca-rashes-in-canadian-patients/
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