Topic: Lyme disease bacteria found in birds 3/24/93
trueblue
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In an attempt to contribute to Cave's library of articles from the wayback machine...
HEADLINE: Lyme disease bacteria found in birds SOURCE: The Xinhua General Overseas News Service DATE: MARCH 24, 1993, WEDNESDAY
A new study by Swedish researchers suggests that birds may provide an important home for the bacteria that cause lyme disease. Reporting their findings in Thursday's _Journal Nature_, the researchers say the study was conducted at the Baltic Sea island of bonden near Sweden, where there are no mammals. As a result, they found the Lyme disease bacteria in a type of tick that bites seabirds, and tests indicated that the bacteria, called borrelia burgdorferi, had infected one bird. Lyme disease, which can cause joint and nervous system damage if untreated, occurs in people when they are infected by the bacteria from infected ticks. Scientists have long believed that mammals, rather than birds, are the main reservoirs for the bacteria among backboned animals.
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robins can be vectors.
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trueblue
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My thoughts exactly!
This seemed the beginning to the answer to the stupid insistance that we cannot have Lyme in FL. Nope, couldn't come from migrating birds, ha!
Bafoons! (sp?)
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