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Park-loving dog's diagnosis raises Lyme disease warning
Tue, June 20, 2006
By RYAN CUREATZ, FREE PRESS REPORTER
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/CityandRegion/2006/06/20/1642431-sun.html
For six years, Denise Beatty has walked her dog Millie twice a day in Gibbons Park.
But after a vet diagnosed the mixed-breed dog with Lyme disease, Beatty is warning others.
"This dog doesn't travel. She only goes into Gibbons Park," Beatty said of the pet she has raised from a puppy. "She had to contract this (there)."
Lyme disease is a tick-borne illness that the sesame-seed-sized pests transfer to animals, including humans, through their bites. They pass on a bacteria called Borrelia burgdorferi.
In humans, the common tick bite sign is a bull's-eye type rash that develops around the bite between three and 32 days later. Flu-like symptoms such as fatigue, fever, headache, a stiff neck and muscle pain accompany the illness.
If not treated with antibiotics, some patients can suffer nervous-system disorders and arthritis, said Cathy Egan, manager of infectious disease control at the Middlesex-London Health Unit.
Though London isn't considered an endemic area, it's possible deer ticks haven't officially been identified here, she said.
"(Deer ticks are) probably something you should be worried about in any outdoor, woodsy area," Egan said.
Point Peele National Park and Long Point Provincial Park on Lake Erie are two spots where the disease has been found, she said.
But only between 15 and 40 human cases are reported annually in Ontario, she said.
To avoid contracting Lyme disease, Egan recommends using insect repellent containing DEET, covering up outdoors with long-sleeved shirts and pants and wearing light colours to help spot the ticks.
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