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Risky Business: Linking T. gondii & Entrepreneurship Behaviors

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/285/1883/20180822

Risky business: linking Toxoplasma gondii infection and entrepreneurship behaviours across individuals and countries

Stefanie K. Johnson, Markus A. Fitza, Daniel A. Lerner, Dana M. Calhoun, Marissa A. Beldon, Elsa T. Chan, Pieter T. J. Johnson
Published 25 July 2018.DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.0822

Abstract

Disciplines such as business and economics often rely on the assumption of rationality when explaining complex human behaviours. However, growing evidence suggests that behaviour may concurrently be influenced by infectious microorganisms. The protozoan Toxoplasma gondii infects an estimated 2 billion people worldwide and has been linked to behavioural alterations in humans and other vertebrates. Here we integrate primary data from college students and business professionals with national-level information on cultural attitudes towards business to test the hypothesis that T. gondii infection influences individual- as well as societal-scale entrepreneurship activities. Using a saliva-based assay, we found that students (n = 1495) who tested IgG positive for T. gondii exposure were 1.4× more likely to major in business and 1.7× more likely to have an emphasis in ‘management and entrepreneurship’ over other business-related emphases. Among professionals attending entrepreneurship events, T. gondii-positive individuals were 1.8× more likely to have started their own business compared with other attendees (n = 197). Finally, after synthesizing and combining country-level databases on T. gondii infection from the past 25 years with the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor of entrepreneurial activity, we found that infection prevalence was a consistent, positive predictor of entrepreneurial activity and intentions at the national scale, regardless of whether previously identified economic covariates were included. Nations with higher infection also had a lower fraction of respondents citing ‘fear of failure’ in inhibiting new business ventures. While correlational, these results highlight the linkage between parasitic infection and complex human behaviours, including those relevant to business, entrepreneurship and economic productivity.

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**Comment**

I’ve always been fascinated with parasites.  Call me crazy – maybe I have them….

The take home here is that parasites can affect behavior.  This is important for Lyme/MSIDS patients to know as a tick’s gut is a literal garbage can full of bizarre and complex creatures that feast on the human body, wreaking all manner of havoc.

In Lyme circles, it won’t take long before you hear patients stating that they aren’t feeling well and then within the same breath, state it’s due to a full-moon.

For a number of reasons, Lyme/MSIDS patients can be coinfected with T. gondii.  While food, congenital, blood transfusions, and organ transplants are the common route of transmission, sexual transmission is theorized.  Also, people can get it from cleaning a cat’s litterbox and then not washing their hands well.  If you go to the following link, you will read of a case of a person with Lyme and Toxoplasmosis:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/05/21/toxoplasmosis/  This article will also reveal T. gondii is responsible for about 1/5 of schizophrenia cases.  Women carrying IgG antibodies when giving birth have a greater risk for self-harm.  The article also gives testing and treatment options.  

It’s a common parasite:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/06/20/brazil-569-confirmed-cases-of-toxoplasmosis-of-which-50-are-pregnant-women/

And lastly, I’ll never forget this information on how parasites affect human behavior by Dr. Klinghardt, which I found here:  http://www.betterhealthguy.com/a-deep-look-beyond-lyme

  • Parasite patients often express the psyche of the parasites – sticky, clingy, impossible to tolerate – but a wonderful human being is behind all of that.

  • We are all a composite of many personalities. Chronic infections outnumber our own cells by 10:1. We are 90% “other” and 10% “us”. Our consciousness is a composite of 90% microbes and 10% us.

  • Our thinking, feeling, creativity, and expression are 90% from the microbes within us. Patients often think, crave, and behave as if they are the parasite.

  • Our thinking is shaded by the microbes thinking through us. The food choices, behavioral choices, and who we like is the thinking of the microbes within us expressing themselves.

  • Patients will reject all treatments that affect the issue that requires treating.

  • Patients will not guide themselves to health when the microbes have taken over.

With this information in mind, it’s quite clear how Lyme/MSIDS is such a complex disease as many are dealing not only with Lyme but other coinfections including parasites which are either directly transmitted by a tick or activated due to a dysfunctional immune system.

This article has a lot of great info regarding parasites:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/10/03/removing-parasites-to-fix-lyme-chronic-illnesses-dr-jay-davidson/

as well as this one:  http://drallisonhofmann.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/TownsendLetter-Parasitosis.pdf

Please consider parasites and discuss with your medical practitioner.

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Lyme, Parasites, Psychological Aspects, research, Testing, Ticks, Toxoplasmosis, Transmission, Treatment

Congenital Transmission of Lyme – Myth or Reality?

https://dermagicexpress.blogspot.com/2018/07/congenital-transmission-of-erythema.html?m=1

July 22, 2018

CONGENITAL TRANSMISSION OF ERYTHEMA MIGRANS OR LYME DISEASE, MYTH OR REALITY ?

AUTHORS

1.) Dr. Lapenta, J Medic Surgeon, Specialty Dermatology, 24 years of exercise. Highly trained in the field of research; University of Carabobo, Venezuela. CEO DERMAGIC EXPRESS. www.dermagicexpress.blogspot.com

2.) Dr. Lapenta, JM. Medic Surgeon. University of Carabobo. Diplomat in Facial Aesthetics Occupational Medicine and Prehospital Auxiliary. Resident Doctor Ambulatorio Del Norte Maracay Aragua State. COO DERMAGIC EXPRESS.  www.dermagicexpress.blogspot.com

ABSTRACT

Lyme disease or Erythema Migrans, described many years ago, and previously known under the name of Lyme Juvenile Arthritis, is produced by a spirochete transmitted by the bite of a family tick. Ixodidade, Ixodes scapularis and many others; discovered by the scientist Willy Burgdorfer in the year of 1981, being named Borrelia Burgorferi, in honor of its discoverer. Apart from the numerous cutaneous and organic manifestations attributed to Borrelia, it is nowadays discussed in the scientific field if it is capable of crossing the placenta and causing fetal damage. In this review we will show you that this biological agent, as in syphilis, produced by Treponema Pallidum, another spirochete, crosses the placenta and can produce serious consequences to the fetus, including death.

Key words: Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, congenital lyme, fetal damage and pregnancy

MAIN OBJECTIVE

The main objective of this work is to demonstrate that Lyme disease and their biological agent, spirochete Borrelia Burgdorferi, is not only an illness with cutaneous manifestations. It can cross the placenta during pregnancy and produce fetal damage that in severe cases can cause death in newborns.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES.

1.) Describe the clinical manifestations in children born from positive Lyme mothers who did not receive treatment in pregnancy, or in those who received treatment with resistance to it.

2.) Alert the World community that there is indeed transplacental transmission of Borrelia Burgdorferi in pregnant Lyme positive women and if there is not adequate treated in time, both the mother and fetus can present clinical symptoms ranging from mild, to severe, even stillbirth.

3.) To call attention to the World Health Organization so that in the revision of the international codes of diseases (ICD-11), this year 2018, the code “Congenital Lyme” be  included in them.

INTRODUCTION

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) affirms in its website that the pregnant woman Lyme positive when making her treatment, the child will be born healthy and recommends for this, the use of the antibiotic amoxicillin or cefuroxime, because doxycycline, which is the antibiotic of choice, can cause damage to the developing fetus. [1]

Other antibiotics recommended by the CDC are the macrolides azithromycin, clarithromycin or erythromycin in case of allergy or intolerance to those previously mentioned. [2]

The CDC itself recognizes that Lyme disease and its causative agent Borrelia Burgdorferi can cross the placenta and cause stillbirths. [1-2]

The question here is what would happen if the Borrelia species, as in some cases, is resistant to amoxicillin or another antibiotic, or the antibiotic to which Borrelia is sensitive cannot be indicated because it would harm the fetus? And beyond, if the patient does not receive the treatment by omission or carelessness? [3]

As we said previously the Borrelia Burgdorferi was discovered by Willy Burgdorfer in the year 1981, and just two (2) year later, in 1983 the first study was published by Shirts SR, and Brown MS, Bobitt Jr, where it is suspected that this spirochete can cross the placenta. [4]

After this study others began to appear, who definitely showed that this spirochete is able to cross the placenta and cause fetal damage, of which we will present in chronological order the most important and confirm the above said.

CHRONOLOGICAL EVOLUTION

1983

The first suspicion described that ante partum fever may be caused by the Borrelia Burgdorferi species, was made in 1983 in two febrile pregnant women in the third-trimester. The two newborn survived, but the scientists suggested the establishment of early laboratory tests to identify the causative agent and the establishment of a rapid treatment to avoid future complications in the pregnant and the fetus. [4]

1985

Really, the first study describing the maternal-fetal transmission of Lyme disease, Borrelia Burgdorferi was published in 1985 by Schlesinger PA, Duray PH, Burke BA, Steere AC, and Stillman MT., Where they describe a case of a pregnant woman who acquired Lyme Borreliosis and did not receive treatment with antibiotics. The child was born at 35 weeks of pregnancy and died of congenital heart disease the first week of life. The autopsy revealed the Borrelia Burgdorferi spirochete in the spleen, kidneys and bone marrow. [5]

1986-1989

In the year 1986, MacDonald A, describes 4 cases of abortions in pregnant women who tested positive for Lyme, and in whose fetuses the Borrelia Burgdorferi was found in their tissues. This same author does another work in 1989 about Lyme disease and its implications for the fetus and describes side effects such as fetal death, hydrocephalus, cardiovascular abnormalities, neonatal respiratory distress, hyperbilirubinemia, intrauterine growth retardation, cortical blindness, sudden death syndrome of the infant and maternal toxemia of pregnancy, and raises the similarity of these with neonatal syphilis. [6-7].

1987

Later, the same Willy Burgdorfer the discoverer of the Borrelia Burgdorferi, together with Dr. Alan Mc Donald and Jorge Benach PhD, published in year 1987 (31 years ago) a work where they relate this disease with children born dead associated in pregnant Lyme positive.

Among the highlights the description of congenital malformations, fetal death, cardiac anomalies and alert the scientific community to investigate exposure during the first trimester of pregnancy in the presence of Borrelia Burgdorferi; and in this cases to determine if cardiac organogenesis is complete by the end of the first trimester of pregnancy. They also recommend starting treatment with Penicillin at the same dose of syphilis in those cases of pregnant women who show signs and early symptoms of the disease. [8]

1988-2012

In these 24 years a total of more than 80 papers were published where Lyme disease is effectively related to pregnancy with fetal damage, studies done in the countries: United States, Canada, Hungary, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Africa, Turkey, Czech Republic, Poland and Belgrade former Yugoslavia, and others [10-52]

Another study that is worth noting is that carried out by the updated MEDLINE database for the year of July 2012, the last revision of November 2012 of 88 journal articles from the PUBMED database, which we summarize in this way

Maternal-fetal transmission of Lyme disease (Findings):

1.) Mothers with active Lyme disease, treated: 14.6% of pregnancies resulted in sequel (a morbid condition following or occurring as a consequence of having Lyme).

2.) Mothers with active Lyme disease not treated: 66.7% of pregnancies resulted in sequel.

3.) Positive Lyme mothers, the treatment is unknown: 30.3% resulted in sequel.

4.) Specific adverse results included:

– Cardiac 22.7%,

– Neurological 15.2%,

– Orthopedic 12.1%,

– Ophthalmologic 4.5%,

– Genitourinary 10.6%,

– Miscellaneous anomalies 12.1%. [53]

Now we will put a summary of the most frequent clinical manifestations described in a study of more than 100 children born to mothers with LYME positive disease, conducted in the year 2005.

COMMON SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS IN LYME POSITIVE CHILDREN:

1.) Low grade fever: 59% -60%
2.) Fatigue and lack of resistance: 72%
3.) Nocturnal sweating: 23%
4.) Pale, dark circle under the eyes: 42%
5.) Abdominal pain: 20-29%
6.) Diarrhea or constipation: 32%
7.) Nausea: 23%
8.) Cardiac anomalies: 23%: palpitations / PVC, heart murmur, mitral valve prolapse.
9.) Orthopedic disorders: sensitivity (55%), pain (69%) spasms and generalized muscle pain (69%), rigidity and / or retarded motion (23%).
10.) Respiratory infections of the superior tract and otitis: 40%
11.) Arthritic disorders and painful joints: 6% -50-%
12.) Neurological disorders:
A- Headaches: 50%
B-) Irritability: 54%.
C-) Bad memory: 39%
13.) Delay in development: 18%
14.) Seizure disorder: 11%
15.) Vertigo: 30%
16.) Tic disorders: 14%
17.) Involuntary athetoid movements: 9%.
18.) Earning disorders and humor changes: 80%
A-) Cognitive speaking: 27%
B-) Speech delay: 21%
C-) Reading-writing problems: 19%
D.) Problems of vocal articulation: 17%.
E-) Auditory / visual processing problems: 13%
F-) Word selection problems: 12%
G-) Dyslexia: 8%
19.) Suicidal thoughts: 7%
20.) Anxiety: 21%
21.) Anger or rage: 23%
22.) Aggression or violence: 13%
23.) Irritability: 54% -80%
24.) Emotional disorders: 13%
25.) Depression: 13%
26.) Hyperactivity: 36%
27.) Photophobia: 40-43%
28.) Gastroesophageal reflux with vomiting and coughing: 40%
29.) Secondary eruptions: 23%
30.) Other eruptions: 45%
31.) Cavernous haemangioma: 30%
32.) Ocular problems: posterior cataracts, myopia, stigmatism, conjunctive erythema (Lyme eyes), optical nerve atrophy and / of uveitis: 30%
33.) Sensitivity of skin and noise (hyperacuity): 36-40%
46.) Autism: (9%). [41]

2013-2018

In recent years the number of cases of Lyme disease has increased notably in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa; in the United States and Canada, it is the most commonly transmitted vector-borne disease reported today [54-62].

For the year 2017 the World Health Organization (WHO) in charge of “coding” diseases through the ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases year 2.017), had not yet included and recognized the code “Congenital Lyme”. It is expected for this year 2018 that all codes of Lyme disease will be recognized by this organization. [63-68]

You can read this classification and codes here:  UNDERSTANDIG THE LYME DISEASE CLASSIFICATION AND CODES. [69]

CONCLUSIONS

1.) Lyme disease is caused by the bite of a tick transmitted by the Borrelia Burgdorferi spirochete, discovered by Willy Burgdorfer in the year 1981. Initially, skin, joint and cardiac manifestations were described in those affected, but not in pregnant women or the fetus.

2.) Two years later, in 1983, was described the suspicion of infection in pregnant women, and in 1985 it was found the first clinical manifestations in pregnant women and fetuses, highlighting congenital malformations and fetal death.

3.) We demonstrate scientifically that definitely Lyme disease, in addition to its multiple organic manifestations, its causative agent Borrelia Burgdorferi, crosses the placenta and reaches the fetus in pregnant women, producing the side effects already described.

4.) All pregnant women living in endemic areas of Lyme disease should take the tests to rule out Borreliosis of pregnancy, to establish immediate treatment in case of being positive.

5.) In addition to establishing adequate treatment, we alert the population to defend against the bite of possibly infected ticks.

6.) We urge the World Health Organization to recognize all the codes and classification of Lyme disease in ICD-11 (International Classification of Diseases year 2.018).

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

To the community of patients affected by Lyme disease.

To the organizations that fight for the recognition of this pathology as a public health problem World.

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**Comment**

The Lyme community owes a debt of gratitude to the doctors Lapenta.  You will see many of their articles on my website as they have painstakingly combed through the research and condensed it for laypeople to clearly see the ramifications of Lyme and other tick borne illnesses.

This article makes plain that Lyme can be passed congenitally to infants.

For more on pregnancy with Lyme:

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/06/19/33-years-of-documentation-of-maternal-child-transmission-of-lyme-disease-and-congenital-lyme-borreliosis-a-review/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/02/26/transplacental-transmission-fetal-damage-with-lyme-disease/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/05/24/new-berlin-mom-given-life-altering-lyme-disease-diagnoses-after-pregnancy/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/10/15/pregnancy-in-lyme-dr-ann-corson/

 

 

 

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Rutgers Racing to Contain Asian Longhorned Tick

https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2018/07/this_is_how_dna_helps_rutgers_scientists_crack_the.html

It spreads SFTS (sever fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome), “an emerging hemorrhagic fever,” causing fever, fatigue, headache, nausea, muscle pain, diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal pain, disease of the lymph nodes, and conjunctival congestion, but the potential impact of this tick on tickborne illness is not yet known. In other parts of the world, this Longhorned tick, also called the East Asian or bush tick, has been associated with several tickborne diseases, such as spotted fever rickettsioses, Anaplasma, Ehrlichia, and Borrelia, the causative agent of Lyme Disease.

For a 2016 literature review on SFTS: http://infectious-diseases-and-treatment.imedpub.com/research-advances-on-epidemiology-of-severefever-with-thrombocytopenia-syndrome-asystematic-review-of-the-literature.php?aid=17986
Although the clinical symptoms of SFTS and HGA are similar to each other, but the treatment methods of the two diseases are totally different. Doctors notice that the biggest difference between the clinical symptom of SFTS and HGA is that SFTS patients generally without skin rash, the dermorrhagia is also not seriously, and few massive hemorrhage cases were reported [23]. It is also reported that SFTS patients had gastrointestinal symptoms, such as nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, which are rarely observed in HGA patients [2]. So these differences can be used as the auxiliary basis of differential diagnosis.
At present, there is still no specific vaccine or antiviral therapy for SFTSV infection. Supportive treatment, including plasma, platelet, granulocyte colony stimulating factor (GCSF), recombinant human interleukin 11, and gamma globulin is the most essential part of case treatment [44]. Meanwhile, some measures were taken to maintain water, electrolyte balance and treat complications are also very important.
Ribavirin is reported to be effective for treating Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) infections and hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, but it is still inadequate to judge the effect of ribavirin on SFTS patients because of the study limitation without adequate parameters were investigated [45]. Host immune responses play an important role in determining the severity and clinical outcome in patients with infection by SFTSV.
For Viral treatment options: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/03/28/combating-viruses/

And lastly, please know ticks parasitize one another, potentially spreading all manner of diseases to humans.  This fact also shoots holes in the regurgitated mantra that only certain ticks carry certain pathogens.  If they are feasting on one another, they can potentially infect each other and then us:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/03/07/tick-bites-tick-hyperparasitism/

 

 

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Activism, Anaplasmosis, Ehrlichiosis, Lyme, research, Testing, Ticks, Transmission, Viruses

Asian Tick Now in North Carolina

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article214748110.html

This article in the Charlotte Observer is noted to be an “aggressive biter.”  A warning has been given to veterinarians to be on the look out as this tick clones itself and spreads rapidly.  It has even drained cattle of their blood.

They can spread disease to humans.

Read more here:

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/03/01/asian-ticks-mysteriously-turn-up-in-new-jersey/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/04/21/ticks-from-hell-survived-the-winter/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/06/27/tick-discovery-highlights-how-few-answers-we-have-about-these-pests-in-the-u-s/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/06/12/first-longhorned-tick-confirmed-in-arkansas/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/05/26/tick-from-hell-now-sited-in-west-virginia/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/07/18/asian-tick-now-in-new-york/

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Activism, Anaplasmosis, Ehrlichiosis, Lyme, Transmission, Viruses

Ticks That Carry Lyme Disease Are Spreading Fast

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ticks-that-carry-lyme-disease-are-spreading-fast/

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay July 13, 2018, 5:25 PM

Ticks that carry Lyme disease are spreading fast

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/behind-the-surge-in-diseases-spread-by-mosquitoes-ticks-fleas/“>https://www.cbsnews.com/video/behind-the-surge-in-diseases-spread-by-mosquitoes-ticks-fleas/  (News story here)

Think you live in a place that’s free from disease-carrying ticks? Don’t be so sure.

Citizen scientists found ticks capable of transmitting Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses in dozens of places across the United States where the pests had never previously been recorded, a new study reports.

All told, disease-carrying ticks were detected in 83 counties where they’d never been found before across 24 states.

The numbers reflect a rise in tick populations across the country, said study author Nate Nieto. He’s an associate professor with Northern Arizona University’s department of biological sciences.

“People should be aware of ticks and tick-borne disease, even when they may think there’s not a recorded incidence of a tick in a county,” Nieto said. “These things, they’re not obeying borders. They’re going by biology. If they get moved there by a deer or bird or people or pets, they’re going to establish themselves and start growing.”

The massive nationwide study also provides evidence that ticks are born carrying infectious diseases, rather than picking germs up from the animals upon which they feed, said Wendy Adams, research grant director for the Bay Area Lyme Foundation, in California.

All life stages of the most commonly encountered ticks — the deer tick, the western black-legged tick and the lone star tick — carried the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, Adams said.

“That’s important, because that would say that a tick doesn’t need to acquire an infection from a blood meal. It’s born with the infection,” Adams explained.

These findings are the result of an unexpectedly successful effort by the Bay Area Lyme Foundation to collect tick samples from across the country.

Between January 2016 and August 2017, the foundation and Northern Arizona University offered free tick identification and testing to the general public. People were encouraged to send in ticks they found on themselves, their pets or around their communities.

The scientists’ original goal was to collect about 2,000 ticks. They wound up with more than 16,000, sent in by people from every state except Alaska.

“We got such a phenomenal participation,” Nieto said. “Two weeks in May, we got almost 2,000 packages per week. That is just powerful data.”

People found ticks in areas not represented in tracking maps maintained by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the researchers discovered.

Most of these new areas were right next to counties with known tick populations, Adams said.

“Ticks are spreading. Tick populations have exploded,” Adams said. “This is good data to show the extent of that. It’s a message to people that even if you think ticks aren’t a problem, they could be.”

The 24 states that contain counties with newly documented populations of deer ticks or Western black-legged ticks are Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.

Further, ticks were found in states where they simply weren’t supposed to be, Adams said. Lone star ticks were found in California and black-legged ticks were found in Nevada, both for the first time ever.

People also found ticks carrying Babesia — microscopic parasites that infect red blood cells and cause the potentially life-threatening disease babesiosis — in 26 counties across 10 states in which the public health department does not require physicians to report cases of the disease.

The new study “highlights the geographic variability of ticks and the pathogens they carry,” said Dr. Paul Auwaerter, clinical director of infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore.

“Surveillance is increasingly important as we see climate and environmental changes, because we do see expanding ranges of ticks. We’ve seen that with Lyme disease. We’ve seen that with babesiosis,” said Auwaerter, president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Adams agreed, suggesting that more funding should be directed to these sorts of crowd-sourced tracking efforts.

“We have to invest federal dollars to examine the spread of ticks,” she said.

In the meantime, the Bay Area Lyme Foundation suggests that people protect themselves from ticks by:

  • Wearing light-colored clothes to make ticks more visible.
  • Do regular tick checks after being in a tick-infested area, and shower immediately after to wash away ticks that might be crawling on you.
  • Consider using tick repellents like DEET for skin and permethrin for clothing.
  • Talk with your doctor if you develop any symptoms following a tick bite.

The new study was published online July 12 in the journal PLOS One.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/lyme-disease-in-dogs-what-you-need-to-know/“>https://www.cbsnews.com/video/lyme-disease-in-dogs-what-you-need-to-know/ (News story here on Lyme Disease in Dogs)

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**Comment**

There has NEVER been a minimum time established for ticks to transmit the Lyme bacterium (or any other pathogen for that matter), so to exclaim with certainty that if the tick drops off the dog before 24 hours they will not get infected is pure conjecture. 

For more on that issue:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/04/14/transmission-time-for-lymemsids-infection/

Research on transmission times as well as transmission modes are desperately needed.

This article points out that ticks don’t require a blood meal that they can be BORN infected.  This is important information to disseminate as many still believe a blood meal is required for them to become infected.

 A telling quote:  “These things are not obeying borders.”

Nope.  And they never have.  This tick border thing is a man-made constructed paradigm that has never been accurate, but it’s fit the CDC/NIH/IDSA narrative.  http://steveclarknd.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/The-Confounding-Debate-Over-Lyme-Disease-in-the-South-DiscoverMagazine.com_.pdf (go to page 6 and read about Speilman’s maps which are faulty but have ruled like the Iron Curtain, and have been used to keep folks from being diagnosed and treated)

Time to pull the blinders off and look at this thing as the PANDEMIC it truly is.

Recently, Wisconsin had it’s first death from Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, transmitted by the Lone Star Tick that isn’t supposed to be in Wisconsin at all:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/07/10/first-rmsf-death-in-wisconsin/

The climate-change issue is another man-made paradigm regarding ticks who will be the last species on the planet besides the IRS:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/08/14/canadian-tick-expert-climate-change-is-not-behind-lyme-disease/

We don’t need any more climate studies regarding ticks.  What we need to know is how this thing is transmitted (sexual, congenital, via breastmilk as well as other bugs, etc), testing that picks up all the pathogens, how long it takes for transmission, how to control ticks, what effectively kills the pathogens, and how to get our treatments paid for by insurance).

So thankful they brought up Babesia; however, there are 18 and counting pathogens spread by ticks and we need mandatory reporting for ALL of them as well as proper and effective treatments paid for by insurance:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/07/01/one-tick-bite-could-put-you-at-risk-for-at-least-6-different-diseases/

Great work Bay Area Lyme Foundation!

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Activism, Babesia, Lyme, research, Testing, Ticks, Transmission