Madison Area Lyme Support Group

Abstract

Lyme disease (LD) is the most common tick-borne illness across the United States, caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and transmitted to humans by the bite of infected Ixodes ticks. Jamestown Canyon Virus (JCV) is an emerging mosquito-borne pathogen found mostly in the upper Midwest and Northeastern United States. Co-infection between these two pathogens has not been previously reported since it would require the host to be bitten by the two infected vectors at the same time. We report a 36-year-old man who presented with erythema migrans and meningitis. While erythema migrans is a pathognomonic sign of early localized Lyme disease, Lyme meningitis does not occur in this stage but in the early disseminated stage. Furthermore, CSF tests were not supportive of neuroborreliosis, and the patient was ultimately diagnosed with JCV meningitis. We review JCV infection, LD, and this first reported co-infection to illustrate the complex interaction between different vectors and pathogens and to emphasize the importance of considering co-infection in people who live in vector-endemic areas.

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For more:

• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2021/07/13/lyme-coinfection-comparisons-what-your-symptoms-could-be-telling-you/
• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/01/16/study-shows-diminished-pathogen-specific-antibody-production-in-coinfected-mice-contributing-to-persistent-infection/
• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/11/17/investigating-disease-severity-in-an-animal-model-of-concurrent-babesiosis-lyme-disease/
• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2022/06/01/tick-bites-coinfections/
• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2021/08/31/the-added-battle-for-lyme-patients-coinfections/
• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/07/01/one-tick-bite-could-put-you-at-risk-for-at-least-6-different-diseases/  (It’s actually 19 and counting)
• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2014/11/14/studies-show-why-its-tough-to-treat-lyme-and-co/
• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/30/study-shows-lyme-msids-patients-infected-with-many-pathogens-and-explains-why-we-are-so-sick/  COVID madness has demonstrated perfectly that studies are often retracted because they do not tout the accepted narrative.  That is certainly the case in the Garg et al. study.  ‘The powers that be’ desperately need to keep Lyme/MSIDS in a 4-cornered box so they can continue spending millions in tax-payer money to fund studies for the end-goal of a lucrative “vaccine” that lines the pockets of researchers, public health ‘authorities,’ research institutions, and our corrupt government.