"Eight state health agencies (AR, GA, MD, MS, OK, SC, TX, VA) considered Lyme disease to be endemic and several others reported that the disease may be declared endemic in their states this year."
It also says, "The most well-known tick vector for Lyme idsease is Ixodes dammini; however, in the Southeast, this species has been reported only in Kentucky, Maryland, and Virginia.
Experiments have revealed that other tick species can transmit the bacterium, and various field durveys have disclosed Lyme disease organisms in at least 9 species of ticks.
Of these, the black-legged tick, Ixodes scapularis, and the lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum, are considered prime vector suspects for our region."
A 1991 article "Lyme Disease and Georgia White-tailed Deer" can be found at:
The article states, "...serological results (from serum taken from white-tailed deer in Georgia) suggest that Bb is present throughout Georgia and has been endemic in the state for at least 20 years."
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kelmo
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1989? That's the year we spent a week at a cabin at a lake in OK. We went to OK every summer and were eaten by mosquitoes.
I would imagine being in a wooded area by a lake where deer thrive might've been the infecting point for all of us.
The next year, my husband and I came down sick with what we only knew to be EBV. We were barely functioning for three years.
My daughter is the sickest now of all of us.
This just BLOWS!
Alagondo Bruce?! Any response!?
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Tincup
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Yes... and this stuff gets buried. Glad you found it.
Some of the older studies should have set off alarms... but were ignored.
We should be years ahead... but because of the IDSA... we have lost so much! Dirty rotten pigs (as opposed to ducks).
Geneal
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I think that is interesting as both bordering states to La. are mentioned.
I guess the ticks just flew over us.
Great find. Should have sent off Major warning bells even back then.
Hugs,
Geneal
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Hoosiers51
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I believe 1989 and 1990 were the years I got infected. I lived in the Tampa Bay area in Florida and got bit a couple times during that period. I think the first one my doctor pulled off, and the next time, we just did it ourselves.
I developed very high fevers and migraines and just remember feeling "not right." I was only 6 years old, but I remember it so well. No one even suspected Lyme, no one tested me, but it just sort of randomly went away.
Then, when I was 17 in 2001, I became severely ill out of nowhere! I can't figure out if I got infected then and just never found a bite, or if it was my past tick incidents coming back! I think it is the latter.
Anyone else have Florida Lyme stories from around that time? 1989-1992.
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