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April 4th, 2017
WATCH: New strain of Lyme disease discovered on Vancouver Island and experts warn it could affect anyone who goes outdoors. Tess van Straaten reports.
Mothers of local children frustrated with how disease is diagnosed and treated; one heads to US for answers. Kawartha Lakes This Week ByCatherine Whitnall (KAWARTHA LAKES) Looking at Aidan Watson and Dylan Hill one wouldn’t think they were seriously ill. Earlier this year, the two children were diagnosed with Lyme disease, making even the simplest…
March 2022 Abstract We report a case of a 79-year-old male presenting to a South Bronx hospital with complaints of fever, shortness of breath, severe thrombocytopenia, hematuria, elevated liver enzymes, and acute renal failure. The patient rapidly progressed to acute hypoxic respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation. Treatment was delayed for six days because the tick-borne…
Jounral of Medical Microbiology Kerry L. Clark1, Brian F. Leydet2 and Clifford Threlkeld Correspondence Kerry L. Clark kclark [at] unf [dot] edu Received 14 January 2014. Accepted 23 February 2014. Abstract The present study investigated the cause of illness in human patients primarily in the southern USA with suspected Lyme disease based on erythema migrans-like skin lesions and/or…
Pathobiology professor Scott Weese, who developed the Tick Tracker, says the data could serve as an “early warning system.” By Isabel Teotonio August 7th, 2017 When Ellen Holmes takes her two cocker spaniels for a walk on her 40-hectare property — a pooch paradise made up of ponds, trails and thick brush — they always…
Cassandra Willyard December 16th, 2019 …”If the new vaccine does make it to market, will it fare any better than LYMErix? According to >Gregory Poland, co-director of the Vaccine Research Group at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who has given scientific advice to Valneva, that’s “a multi-million dollar question.” One factor that led to LYMErix’s demise…
Sept. 16, 2015 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135828 Eshoo MW, Carolan HE, Massire C, Chou DM, Crowder CD, Rounds MA, et al. Abstract Ixodes pacificus ticks can harbor a wide range of human and animal pathogens. To survey the prevalence of tick-borne known and putative pathogens, we tested 982 individual adult and nymphal I. pacificus ticks collected throughout…
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Peppermint oil to detour ticks? Yes or no?
Peppermint oil may act as a deterrent to keep ticks from attaching, but once they have attached it is not recommended to put peppermint oil on the tick to make the tick back out as this may cause the tick to vomit into your blood stream.
I have never had a tick before to the best of my knowledge. This spring/summer I have had three ticks so far. The last one being the biggest and leaving a bruise of purple blending to red as it radiates outward. The area is a little bigger than a dime and it’s a little tender to the touch.
I have frozen the tick in a zip lock bag, should I get it (or me) tested for Lyme disease?
if so where would I go?
Rick if there is a red mark like you have described then go get yourself checked and potentially treated for Lyme disease ASAP
www,igenex.com to get accurate testing and then go on Lyme advocate forums and ask somebody who has Lyme. You can pm me for names of people in BC and Alberta who treat Lyme and who have resources to help you.