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The American immigrant rodents already have previous convictions for decimating native red squirrel populations and damaging woodland by stripping bark from trees.
Now scientists have discovered that they host the bacteria responsible for Lyme disease, which if left untreated can lead to a chronic inflammatory disorder affecting the joints, nervous system and heart.
American Scientist, May-June, 2016 Katie L. Burke “ To make matters worse, the Flint water crisis is a repeat of very recent history. About a decade ago, Edwards revealed high lead levels in public water in Washington, DC, exposing misconduct at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),…
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS Nov, 2015 ROSEMONT, Ill.–Spontaneous knee effusion, also known as “water on the knee,” can be a primary symptom of Lyme disease, even when patients do not exhibit a “bull’s eye” rash, another common Lyme disease symptom. According to a literature review appearing in the November issue of The Journal of…
Like most Lyme disease patients in Canada, Dawn Lavarnway doesn’t remember when she was bitten by the tick that gave her the crippling illness – but she knows when she found out Canada’s health system wouldn’t treat her for it. The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario nurse tried to book an appointment with an infectious…
Obituary Haefling, Paul M.A. (English), LL.B – Passed away surrounded by his loving wife Catherine of 54 years and family members at the Wellington Terrace Nursing Home in Fergus on Monday, January 13, 2020. Paul Haefling, in his 79th year, was the husband of Catherine (Lipton) Haefling. Predeceased by his parents Jerome and Irene (Sullivan)…
[CanLyme note: the oldest tactic used in Lyme disease misinformation proliferation is; from country to country each of the country’s medical “leadership” state that all cases have occurred elsewhere, never in their country. That is nonsense, and they will go to great lengths to make these unfounded, unproven statements because they ‘can and will’ only positively confirm those cases that have…
Urba`Gonza´ lez, MD, PhD; Department of Dermatology, Clinica Plato´ , Barcelona, Spain “Comment I recommend the complementary reading of other commentaries about the applicability of this study. Shapiro, in an accompanying editorial,1 pointed out the difficulty in clinical practice to know the species, stage, degree of engorgement of the tick, and even the difficulty to…
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What test for Lyme disease do you recommend?
Can you link sources to this? I’d like to read the full article.