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June 13th, 2017
… “I felt something on my back, so I pulled it off and it was a tick,” said Ferguson. “So I just killed it and threw it away.”
Logan said it was a wood tick, so he didn’t give it a second thought. But a couple of days later he started feeling sick with headaches and fatigue.
“Borrelia burgdorferi was detected in the brain in 25.3% of AD cases analyzed and was 13 times more frequent in AD compared to controls. Periodontal pathogen Treponemas (T. pectinovorum, T. amylovorum, T. lecithinolyticum, T. maltophilum, T. medium, T. socranskii) and Borrelia burgdorferi were detected using species specific PCR and antibodies. Importantly, co-infection with several spirochetes…
Apr 29, 2019 – by Alexandra Heck Orangeville Banner “For three and a half years, Costigan suffered from about 33 different symptoms, including flu, neurological, spasms, headaches and more. After a slew of testing and referrals to different doctors, there was a clue. What if it was Lyme disease, one specialist suggested, noting that he…
[Tick Tick Boom everywhere] The number of people in the Netherlands with Lyme’s disease continues to rise and the infection total has quadrupled over the past 20 years, the public health council RIVM said on Monday. In total, 27,000 were diagnosed with Lyme’s last year, a rise of 2,000 on 2014 when the RIVM last…
Watch presentations before the federal all party standing committee on health as they discuss what was purported to be a federal framework on Lyme disease by the Minister of Health… Watch now
[ CanLyme note: Western Canadian ticks often come from migratory birds from California and other western states. Borrelia bissettii was found in the province of British Columbia well over a decade ago, yet there is still no human test that properly tests for it and many other Borrelia genotypes known to occur. Patients in Canada are…
A TURRAMURRA researcher is calling on the medical fraternity to advocate for recognition of Lyme disease in Australia, both for treatment and insurance purposes. Mualla McManus’s call follows an appeal from tick bite victim and East Lindfield teen Francesca Wallis who is trying to raise $30,000 for Lyme disease treatment at a German clinic, as the…
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Last year, my sister had a wood tick on her..She went to see a doctor , and the doctor said it was nothing to worry about. Over a period of a week or so , she complained of being tired (normally full of energy ) and what we thought was a flu.. Later she began to lose her balance and falling and dropping her plate of food…and several days later of a stroke like symptoms……..In a couple of months she died …Neuro surgeon mis diagnosed her illness as being ADEM …Did she have Lyme disease….or encepholitis…To this day I never got honest straight answers from the neurologist…………..I stongly believe the wood tick was the catalyst and why she got sick…Doctors need to take a better look at wood tick bites and infections from any wood tick related incident when persons enter the hospital to see a doctor or at ER centers….
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