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A rise in the number of ticks carrying Lyme disease in southeastern New Brunswick has biologists looking for samples. Lyme disease is a bacterial infection often transmitted by an infected tick and causing muscle pain, heart palpitations and nerve damage. Dr. Vett Lloyd says the provincial norm is for 10 to 15 per cent of…
Evidence now confirms that noncommunicable chronic diseases can stem from infectious agents. Furthermore, at least 13 of 39 recently described infectious agents induce chronic syndromes. Identifying the relationships can affect health across populations, creating opportunities to reduce the impact of chronic disease by preventing or treating infection. As the concept is progressively accepted, advances in…
Delong AK, Blossom B, Maloney EL, Phillips SE. Source Center for Statistical Sciences, Department of Biostatistics, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA. Abstract INTRODUCTION: Lyme disease (Lyme borreliosis) is caused by the tick-borne spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. Long-term persistent illness following antibiotic treatment is not uncommon, particularly when treatment is delayed. Current treatment guidelines for persistent disease…
Bite from deer tick a health nightmare By: W. Gifford-Jones / The Doctor Game Do you believe you must be in an infected area to get Lyme disease? If you do, think again. A 10-year study reports you can catch this malady in your own backyard. And since spring and fall are prime times for…
Globally, 34.2% of ticks were infected with at least one pathogen. The diversity of tick-borne pathogens detected in I. ricinus in this study and the frequency of co-infections underline the need to take them seriously into consideration when evaluating the risks of infection following a tick bite. Read more
This video is a 10 minute clip, part of a 70 minute interview with Dr. Sapi from the University of New Haven. She is credited with being the first researcher to demonstrate that Lyme spirochetes can actually create their own complex biofilm community to survive indefinitely within their hosts; both human and animal. [Eva is…
International journalists have selected a Better Farming magazine story by Mary Baxter, about Lyme Disease, as last year’s best story by BETTER FARMING STAFF Better Farming field editor Mary Baxter is this year’s recipient of a top international agricultural journalism award. Earlier this week, Baxter’s article, “Lyme disease: the painful and hard-to-diagnose condition,” which ran…
16 Aug, 2012 17:35 CET GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has been hit with a dangerous drug lawsuit that alleges its Lyme disease vaccine LYMERix caused patients to develop arthritis. The dangerous drug lawsuit claims that plaintiffs who were vaccinated with the medication in the 1990s were later diagnosed with post-Lyme disease treatment syndrome or treatment resistant Lyme…
Goldhawk Fights Back: Jim Wilson, President of the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation, confirms there is no vaccine anywhere in the world that can protect humans from contracting Lyme Disease, through the bite of infectious tics. Listen here
Recent infection before immune response Only strain B31 of Borrelia burgdorferi as basis of test, many strains/species missed Antibodies are in immune complexes Spirochete encapsulated by host tissue (i.e.: lymphocytic cell walls) Spirochete is deep in host tissue Blebs in body fluid, no whole organisms needed for PCR No spirochetes in body fluid on day…
Chronic Lyme Patients Get Political Victory: New Book by Top Infectious Disease Doctor Supports Long Term Antibiotic Treatment “Chronic Lyme disease does exist,” says Burton A. Waisbren Sr. MD, FACP, FIDSA, in his new book, “Treatment of Chronic Lyme Disease: Fifty-One Case Reports and Essays in Their Regard.” The book, released in January, 2012, adds…
Protective value of prophylactic antibiotic treatment of tick bite for Lyme disease prevention: An animal model [one or two pills…who are you going to risk it on?] Joseph Piesman, Andrias Hojgaard, Bacterial Diseases Branch, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 3150 Rampart Road, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA Received 29…
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2012 Aug 13. [Epub ahead of print] Anderson JF, Armstrong PM. Source Department of Entomology and Center for Vector Biology and Zoonotic Diseases, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, Connecticut. Abstract A total of 30 Powassan virus (POWV) isolates from Ixodes scapularis collected from Bridgeport and North Branford, CT…
To help raise awareness and education on the impact of stealth pathogens and the role they play in various chronic illnesses, Bec is currently writing, directing and producing a series of self-funded educational documentaries entitled Invisibly Ill. Watch sneak preview
Donta, Sam T. MD, Noto, Richard B. MD, Vento, John A. MD Clinical Nuclear Medicine, September 2012, Volume 37, Issue 9, e219-e222. Abstract Objectives Lyme disease is an infectious disease that frequently involves the central nervous system, leading to cognitive and/or mood dysfunction. The basis for these symptoms remains to be defined but may be…
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