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Thanks for the reference! I see you are in Kalifornia too, so I should mention the Lyme will be INCREASING markedly over the next decade here IMHO.
Why the marked predicted increase? Consider:
1) Freezing winter weather has all but disappeared over the past 30 years; Ticks, Eucalyptus, Ficus trees all will do very well now; but not in the past. Ticks will be allowed to cycle almost year-round.
2) California has MORE varieties of the Lyme Tick than any where on Earth. They've been here, they just weren't Borealis infected.
3) N.California: ALL areas have recently been treated to 'wild' turkeys (introduced by F&G); these guys are the perfect airline to spread the ticks to Urban hills and gardens.
They travel great distances, and go through the brush like rats. R&D regarding deer suggests they are way over-rated in this regard; It's field mice, and Turkey Taxi's for us!
(Sadly, west coast doctors are less than 3% Lyme aware compared to East Coast doctors. They MISS late stage patient diagnosis way too easily.)
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Fricking unbelievable, the lies they continue to spill is about to bite some of these so called experts right in the ****.
I can't wait until it all explodes and the powers that be....go down. Their days are numbered.
Now I wonder where the state of KY falls? Everyone thinks of it as the South, but looking at a map, we're not the south and not north.
Since I have spoke with hundreds that have been tick bitten in this state...we have the black legged deer ticks and the Lone Star ticks.
We have a gentleman in our support group that collects them in a jar. He continues to find them on his body, every time he goes out onto his property using the riding lawnmower or just walking his dog on his lawn.
He had two bulls eyes, one in '10 & '11. Doctors, many doctors, known as specialists told him we don't have Lyme Disease in KY.
The second bulls eye lead him to the truth. So he's a tick collector now. Deer ticks, Lone star ticks, wood ticks and any type of nymph.
Berkley, KY agreed many years (17 yrs)ago to take wild turkeys from the northeast. They were overpopulated in the north. They brought them to KY and they placed them in our lake communities and national parks.
Just one way to spread from state to state, coast to coast.
Pam
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There is no 'definitive' study that indicates how often a genuine 'bulls eye' shows up, nor variability in duration.
Doctors now give a strong dose of antibiotics (we hope) when in the slightest doubt... which if under-treated, may just help push the infection to a 'late stage' case.
Some diagnostic focus should be given to the 'flu-like' symptoms that show-up IMHO. What this actually translates to is: night-sweats; showing-up while the immune system beats back the attack;
and some time later (weeks, months): night-sweats AGAIN, as the bug gets rolling yet again.
Easily confused in female patients as 'menopause' (like) symptoms.
Also; impacted children are frequently over-looked with lyme symptoms that are passed-off as a multiple 'diagnosis'.
In one child, besides being obviously 'sickly' for three years,the final 'tell' was the creaking of ALL the joints in his body. IMHO, the Western Blot is far too insensitive to p/u antibodies in those that have carried the infection for more than 18 months (in children, and adults over 30).
The best way to test such individuals is to fire-up the dormant immune system by first using (any) antibiotic for two weeks, and then at three weeks go for the Western Blot test. (You need at least three positive peaks; just one peak is quite normal btw.)
The antibiotics will impact the easily found spirrochettes, and the immune system will suddenly see the floating fragments, and will renew an attack... this will be to a level that the Western Blot can detect.
(For Doctors to admit to using an Antibiotic simply as a 'diagnostic' tool would be on their way to a medical board censure... So those concerned with a correct late-stage diagnosis must be 'pro-active'.
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