LymeNet Flash: Holy Biting insects Batman!!!!

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Posted by LYMESCIENCE (Member # 9259) on :

This scares the bejesus out of me. It has been something I was worried about (not in the typical lyme hysteria worried). Recently, I had been studying the ecology of my local habitat to determine the exact nature of Borreliosis risk to my family and neighboors. What I noted several months ago was that while I did notice ticks, mostly Lone Star Ticks, and mostly female, there was an increasingly large number of misquitoes, and several different species of them.

Also, they seemed unusually attracted to me (I have a malaria type infection as well-Babesia, though I am beginning to ponder if it is more likely a plasmodium species as opposed to a Babesia species).

While we have had questions regarding flying insect vectors for the possible transmittion of Lyme Disease, this is the most clearly proven link I have seen to date, and it scares the crap out of me.

http://tinyurl.com/yye2sz

Folia Biol (Krakow). 2006;54(1-2):55-9. Links
Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato infection in mosquitoes from Szczecin area.Kosik-Bogacka DI, Kuzna-Grygiel W, Gornik K.
Chair and Department of Biology and Medical Parasitology, Pomeranian Medical University, Powstancow Wielkopolskich 72, 70-111 Szczecin, Poland. [email protected]

The aim of the study was to determine the level of infection in mosquitoes with spirochetes Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in the woody areas of Szczecin. The mosquitoes were collected from May to September 2003. The spirochetes, Borrelia burgdorferi s. l., present in mosquitoes were detected in mosquitoes with indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA) using rabbit anti-Borrelia burgdorferi antibodies and goat anti-rabbit IgG marked with fluorescein isocyanate (FITC). A total of 1557 females and 58 males were collected. They represented the genera Aedes (63%) and Culex (37%). The infection level of the mosquitoes from the area studied amounted to 1.7%. The results of the present study confirm the potential of these arthropods to spread Lyme borreliosis.

PMID: 17044261 [PubMed - in process]

Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :

I believe it! You've probably seen this, but perhaps others haven't:

The cause and spread of Lyme
http://flash.lymenet.org/ubb/Forum1/HTML/032259.html

Posted by AliG (Member # 9734) on :

[Eek!]

Posted by luvs2ride (Member # 8090) on :

I have read in research that Bb has been found in horse flies too. That may very well be how I got mine.

Posted by Jill E. (Member # 9121) on :

I've already met one Lyme patient who got it via a mosquito and one who got it via a biting fly.

Jill

Posted by trueblue (Member # 7348) on :

I don't know how or how many times I was exposed but my last one was from fleas from white footed mice.

I also question my diagnosis of B macroti and HepC, I suspect that both may have been transmitted via mosquito.

I'm always a bug bite magnet. [Frown]

Posted by trails (Member # 1620) on :

my relapse was triggered by a swarm and lots of bites from those NASTY black biting flies in MAINE!! [Mad]

Posted by Lisianthus (Member # 6631) on :

My youngest son(15) was bit by a flying insect of some sort. He wasn't sure what it was. When within a few moments of getting bit a perfect bullseye rash appeared in front of our eyes. I didn't take a picture of it cause I didn't have a camera and it was gone in a few hours.

We happened to be in Conn. at the time, at a rest stop.

Lisi