Archive for the ‘Ticks’ Category

Ehrlichiosis Found in Australian Dogs – Can Also Infect Humans

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-03/ehrlichiosis-detected-in-kimberley-dogs/

Exotic tick-borne disease ehrlichiosis detected in WA’s Kimberley region is a first in Australian dogs

Dogs roaming a Kimberley street

An exotic tick-borne disease, never seen before in Australian canines, has been found in a small number of sick dogs tested in Western Australia’s far north Kimberley.

Ehrlichiosis is a bacterial illness transmitted by ticks, particularly common in tropical and sub-tropical regions but this is the first time it has been confirmed in dogs which haven’t been imported from another country.

The affected dogs, in Halls Creek and Kununurra, have been treated by a private veterinarian in the region.

The bacteria, Ehrlichia canis, which causes the disease in dogs, was later confirmed through laboratory testing by the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness. (See link for article)

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https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/15/ehrlichiosis-masquerading-as-thrombotic-thrombocytopenia-purpura/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/02/north-carolina-ehrlichia-often-overlooked-when-tick-borne-illness-suspected/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/07/24/oklahoma-ehrlichiosis-central/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/03/09/dogs-ehrlichiosis/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/03/28/human-tick-borne-diseases-in-australia/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/08/21/our-battle-ongoing-lyme-disease-in-australia/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/11/03/ld-not-in-australia-here-we-go-again/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/03/aussie-widow-of-lyme-disease-victim-to-sue-nsw-health/  A SYDNEY woman launches a class action against NSW Health after autopsy results showed her husband was riddled with Lyme in his liver, heart, kidney, and lungs. He was only 44 years old and was bitten by a tick while filming a TV show in Sydney.

 https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/18/study-finds-q-fever-rickettsia-typhus-in-australian-ticks-and-people/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/01/14/python-covered-with-more-than-500-ticks-rescued-in-australia/

 

 

 

 

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Ehrlichiosis, Testing, Ticks

It’s Tick Season Again. Here’s What You Need To Know

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/ticks-season-kitchener-waterloo-ontario

It’s tick season again. Here’s what you need to know

An expert in ticks and tick-borne diseases provides information to help you through the season
Desmond Brown · CBC News ·

Fall is the prime season for adult black-legged ticks, says Katie Clow, assistant professor at University of Guelph. (Bertrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images)

Many people have spent their spring largely indoors due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But as restrictions ease and certain areas re-open for hiking and camping, people are being reminded to keep an eye out for ticks.

“The most important thing to know is where you’re going to find ticks, so you can avoid that habitat,” Katie Clow, assistant professor at University of Guelph and expert in ticks and tick-borne diseases, told CBC Kitchener-Waterloo.

Black-legged ticks tend to stay inside forested areas, especially in bushy areas.

“They’re pretty lazy, they just sit there and wait for something to come along,” she said.

Clow recommended hikers stay on marked trails away from forested areas. That’s where ticks lie in wait, she said. (See link for articles)

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https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/21/help-i-got-bit-by-a-tick-what-do-i-do/

 

Category:

Testing, Ticks

Be Tick AWARE

Tick Bite Prevention and Lyme disease

For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/04/12/tick-prevention-2019/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/21/help-i-got-bit-by-a-tick-what-do-i-do/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/06/05/reducing-the-burden-of-lyme-disease/

 

Category:

Prevention, Ticks

Upstate Residents Seeing A Tick-Bite Illness That Resembles Coronavirus

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-coronavirus-covid-19-tick-bite-born-20200604-unfpdcw5trccnfiuv6fd3m7n54-story.html

Upstate residents seeing a tick-bite illness that resembles coronavirus

By
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
JUN 04, 2020 3:48 PM
Deer Tick
(Shutterstock)

Those symptoms reportedly include fever, muscle aches and respiratory failure. Unlike COVID-19, this sickness is treatable. The CDC says doxycycline is frequently prescribed to knock it out.

Health officials worry the emergence of anaplasmosis could cause complications as woodsmen in areas like Saratoga and the Adirondacks start heading outdoors again as pandemic lockdown restrictions are eased and the weather gets warmer. (See link for article)

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https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/06/08/emerging-tick-borne-diseases-blood-safety-summary-of-a-public-workshop/  Anaplasmosis has been transmitted through blood transfusions.

Category:

Anaplasmosis, Anaplasmosis Treatment, Ticks, Viruses

Bitten By Tick in 2007 – Still Dealing With Symptoms

https://www.health.com/condition/lyme-disease/tick-bite-chronic-lyme-disease-symptoms

This Woman Was Bitten by a Tick in 2007—and She’s Still Dealing With Chronic Lyme Disease Symptoms

‘If I overdo it, Lyme rears its beastly, ugly head.’

By Stephanie Buice as told to Dana Hudepohl

May 28, 2020

There are days I feel as though my body is constricted by a thousand weighted blankets, and I can’t even lift my foggy head off the pillow, let alone carry on a coherent conversation with my husband or daughters. Days my muscles burn like they’re on fire, my bones cry out as if they are being crushed in a crematorium, and I am left bawling on the floor in the fetal position. On days like that, my husband scoops me up and puts me in an Epsom salt bath. Some days, when I’m in a flare, I feel like I am dying inside. It is a battle I will be fighting for the rest of my life.

Now I know I have what some clinicians and researchers are calling chronic Lyme disease, a tickborne infection that took a decade of my life to properly diagnose.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Important quote:

Ultimately, she diagnosed Epstein Barr and leaky gut, which she treated through diet, lifestyle changes, and supplements. A conventional Lyme test came back negative. She said that we could go ahead and treat for Lyme since it could be a false negative, but I wasn’t ready to take that step without a definitive diagnosis.

This right here is the problem….

First, I’m impressed the doctor was willing to treat her despite the negative test. Perhaps word is finally making it around; however, the patient’s refusal to treat due to wanting a definitive diagnosis is pretty common.  They just don’t get it.

It’s up to us to educate the public on how devastating tick-borne illness is because it’s the only way procrastination to get treatment is going to change.  This isn’t like other diseases where you go in get a definitive test and then start treatment.  This is like catching a greased pig in an oil factory.  

This “wait and see” approach is ruining peoples’ lives and must end.  If you are bitten by a tick, treat immediately – before any tests can even be taken and get back.  Trust me when I say it’s a lot easier to support the brief negative impact of antibiotics than it is to treat something that can disable you and cause you pain of a magnitude you’ve never experienced before.

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Category:

Lyme, Ticks, Uncategorized