All Posts Tagged With: "Lyme disease"

Linda comment:  To investigate whether Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.) infection is associated with mortality in mountain hares, tissues and ticks collected from hares were investigated for infection with the spirochete. mountain  hare to some degree functions as a transmission host for B. burgdorferi s.s. and Borrelia sp. SV1.

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Our results indicate that disseminated Borrelia infection in 
hares rarely occurs and, presumably, does not play a central role in the 
suspected population decline. The results also suggest that the mountain 
hare to some degree functions as a transmission host for B. burgdorferi 
s.s. and Borrelia sp. SV1.

Linda’s comment:  expansion of the tick vector Ixodes scapularis is driving Lyme disease emergence in Canada.  With all the rain and moisture this year there will be hundreds of thousands more ticks every place in the US and Canada.  BE prepared…

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Conclusions: These data are consistent with I. scapularis ticks dispersed from the USA, by migratory birds, founding populations where the climate is warmest, then establishment of B. burgdorferi from the USA several years after I. scapularis have established. These observations provide vital information for public health to minimize the impact of LD in Canada.

Linda’s comment…Why do we have re-emerging leptospirosis.  It is scary to watch so many changes in the world which is changing our lives….

Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21414083

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 It is anticipated that current 
international initiatives will assess the global burden of 
leptospirosis, while mathematical modelling of transmission dynamics 
will allow the identification and testing of appropriate intervention 
and outbreak response measures within the coming years.
© 2011 The Authors. Clinical Microbiology and Infection © 2011 European 
Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.

Linda’s comment:   Lyme is just a USA disease….it is in every country and getting worse.  Lyme isn’t just in deer either…..

Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3037898/?tool=pubmed

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ABSTRACT: Blood samples were obtained from 38 wild red deer (Cervus 
elaphus) at two sites in Ireland and subjected to PCR analysis of the 
18S rRNA gene followed by sequencing. Two fragments of the 18S rRNA gene 
were generated by two different PCR protocols and subsequent sequencing 
suggested that at least six of the deer were infected by a babesia that, 
in those loci, is indistinguishable from Babesia divergens, an important 
tick-borne pathogen of cattle and of zoonotic significance. 

Link: http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/02/15/ticks-lizard-lyme-disease/ 

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BERKELEY — The Western fence lizard’s reputation for helping to reduce the threat of Lyme disease is in jeopardy. A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, found that areas where the lizard had been removed saw a subsequent drop in the population of the ticks that transmit Lyme disease.

I live in Ontario and I have Lyme disease. I contracted Lyme here. I was misdiagnosed for four year and I have chronic late stage Lyme. I am one of thousands of people who have this contracted disease in this country. This disease is like AIDS. It affects your immune system and every part of your body and is incurable. It will and can kill a person. Like AIDS it requires long term treatment but with antibiotics not antivirals since it is a bacterial infection.

The most common way of contracting Lyme is through a tick bite but there is science showing it can be passed on through birth and through breast feeding.(1,2) The bacteria that causes Lyme disease has also been discovered in semen although there have yet to have studies on if it is sexually transmitted although the bacteria is a Spirochete a relative to syphilis.(3) We also don`t screen the blood or organ donor supply so it may be possible to contract the disease this way too.(4)

Linda’s comment: in vitro model of the human BBB mimics many of the important features of in vivo B. burgdorferi interactions with the BBB. Hence, this model should be an important tool for identifying the cellular and molecular elements implicated in B. burgdorferi interactions with the BMEC, as well as for helping characterize the biochemical mechanisms by which the bacteria cross the BBB.

Link: http://iai.asm.org/cgi/content/full/73/2/1014

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Our in vitro model of the human BBB mimics many of the important features of in vivo B. burgdorferi interactions with the BBB. Hence, this model should be an important tool for identifying the cellular and molecular elements implicated in B. burgdorferi interactions with the BMEC, as well as for helping characterize the biochemical mechanisms by which the bacteria cross the BBB.

Linda’s Comment:  Unfortunately not enough know how to treat Lyme, as well as identifying the disease. There is way to much mis-diagnosis of Lyme disease.  Most doctors, not just the consumers, know how to treat this disease and many more don’t subscribe how to treat it.  With the IDSA guidelines for diagnosing is not correct, they continue to recommend treatments that DO NOT WORK…Everyone relates this to ticks, where as they have found Lyme in rodents, ticks, fleas, ear mites….

Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=.%20How%20Big%20Is%20the%20Lyme%20Problem%3F%20Using%20Novel%20Methods%20to%20Estimate%20the%20True%20Number%20of%20Lyme%20Disease

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Abstract Lyme disease (LD) is rare in British Columbia (BC) and, despite 
being a reportable condition since 1994, may be underreported. Here we 
review all provincial laboratory and clinical databases to determine the 
number of LD cases reported in BC from 1997 to 2008. 

Linda’s comment:  When is this nonsense going to END….How many more have to die and suffer before the allopathic docs stop their fighting about who is right about Lyme….People and children are dying for Godsake!!!

Link: http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_thompson_nicola/salmonarmobserver/news/119329674.html#

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News March 30 that Victoria will fund a $2-million provincial clinic to provide for a clinical and research study to help patients with a variety of complex chronic diseases get screening, diagnosis and treatment is an answer to a prayer for Sheri Mahood and her husband Rory. 

“I was filled with so much emotion, I just had to cry,” says the woman whose health has been ravaged by Lyme disease following a 2009 tick bite. “They’re finally recognizing it and doing something.”

Linda’s comments:  When will they learn.  I remember when they infected hundreds of thousands with Hepatits C and Hepatitis B….The Canadians sued and WON, but nothing happened in the states except that they now test blood for Hepatitis….This makes you wonder how many thousands have been infected with Lyme disease and its co-infections???  We know that transplant organs are infected with Lyme, why not our blood supply???  Is it because the US will have to admit that they are giving a death threat to all those who need blood??  DISGUSTING to say the least…

Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21414828

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During the last 20 years, the safety of blood products increased dramatically with regard to the infectious risk and notably to that represented by retroviruses (HIV and HTLV) and hepatitis B and C viruses. The aim of this review is to identify the residual and emergent viral threats that could be responsible for the occurring of new contaminations in the receivers of blood products. Beside many other viruses (HHV-8, erythrovirus B19, hepatitis A and E viruses…), a special attention has been paid to emerging arbovirus diseases (West Nile virus infection, dengue, chikungunya) that threaten to occur in the French metropolitan area following the implantation in Europe of the mosquito Aedes albopictus, the main vector of dengue and chikungunya in temperate regions. Another blood-linked risk, notably in United Kingdom and France, is the prion agent responsible for the variant form of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.