may also have been reinfected where i live, Yardley , PA.

roger boy niemans was quoted in the newspaper that he has never seen a case of babesia in PA. that was 6 mos after he saw me with full blown lyme and babesia. in my records he goes after the local dr in newtown who no longer treats aggressively because he has been burned by insurence co's and local ducks. goes after Igenex and writes in my records that the only pos lyme test i have is the "scientifically illegitamite" non FDA approved LUAT (which was highly , highly pos). two weeks after that visit i had a pos pcr of my spinal fluid. last yr i was finnallly tested for babs. robustly pos. taunts me that "no dr has ever seen the rash and she has no photos of it " turns out we unwittinglly took photos of it. says the '96 rash that i got on my foot may or may not have been the lyme rash. i had a recurrent rash on my foot at teh time of teh visit and he knew damned well it was a lyme rash. says if i did have lyme, i no longer have an active infection. i was still gravely ill. have several pos pcr's adn pos Igm western blot. and passed this on to my children.

seriously, we both have WA1, but i've never camped or hiked in the West. i grew up on the east coast, midwest, eastern canada & hawaii, never went to CA or western US. but he grew up in CA, has camped there extensively, had several tickbites there and in midwest...

i did go to grad school in san diego, but was a beach type, not a camper. never saw a tick.

an LLMD told me there is animal research (on horses) where babesia is transmitted via semen.

flossie

I got WA1 in Montana

Never tested positive but respond to treatment.