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willbehealthysoon
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Is it possible to get lyme from a blood transfusion from a person who has lyme?
If a mosquito bit a person w/lyme and then bit a second person, would the second person get lyme?Would it work the same way with babesia?

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HaplyCarlessdave
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It would seem extremely likely, since lyme is a blood disease. Sexual transmission, though not as sure as through a transmission, is almost surely possible. I have read about several instances of people being pretty sure that it was transmitted sexually.
Babesia, too, being a blood disease, is transmossable through transfusions. In fact, they won't take your blood if you've EVER had babesia! ( I was wondering about giving blood and they rejected me for life due to having had babs)
I think babs is probably less likely than lyme to be transmitted sexually, as the babs plasmodium only lives in red blood cells, while the lyme spirochete can live outside the blood cells.
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Areneli
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Blood transfusion from a sick person is a sure way to get the disease.

Mosquito is a very questionable route of infection.


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I was at the Chronic Illness seminar in Chicago last week and the researchers referred to a study in Mich. that confirmed mosquitoes can pass Lyme. I unfortunately do no have the specific author of the study and any of the statistics, but it something we should be aware. Maybe somebody else knows the specifics. I agree that sexually transmission is very likely. Some researchers are saying LD spread within the family (by various means)is a much more likely channel then it previously considered.
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Bob,
Highly interested in trying to find out more about the study you referred to on mosquitoe transmission..........

Is there a website for the conference?

Do you remember the researchers names that mentioned this Michigan study??

Perhaps you might have a program that listed their names?

I can be hopeful........maybe somebody else will see this that was at the same conference.

Email me please if you can give me any info!!!

Much thanks!!

Gail


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my husband first got this disease 22 yrs ago from a mosquito bite. he was told at the time in was "viral" encephalitis.
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Yes, I think many people get it from blood transfusions. Not only do they not test the donors blood for Lyme, in a New Jersey paper about 9 months ago there was an ad for blood donors and it even said they don't care if you have Lyme. I think there is a thread on this board about that article.

There have been cases were whole familys have gotten it from lice transmission so logic dictates that mosquitos could be a vector as well.


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According to this document http://www.lymepa.org/Basics2004v4_3.pdf

(see page 3), "researchers believe mosquitos, fleas, biting flies and lice may transmit LD"

"A blood transfusion with Lyme-infectd blood may transmit the disease to the recipient"



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i know someone who got it without ever getting bitten by a tick, no rash either. i dont believe she even lived in our little outbreak area we call new england most of the time.

mosquitoes and blood transfusion are certainly vectors for many diseases, some worse than the lyme keets. like the many strains of mycoplasma.
actually mosquitos have been used by the goverment to test pathogens in the past. in florida and other places. if you google "mosquitos mycoplasma florida" and look at the first page you see the information. this is something that is well documented, i just pulled up the info on google as a reference and found it easily.

"Testing via Mosquito Vector in Punta Gorda, Florida

A report from The New England Journal of Medicine reveals that one of the first outbreaks of chronic fatigue syndrome was in Punta Gorda, Florida, back in 1957.10 It was a strange coincidence that a week before these people came down with chronic fatigue syndrome, there was a huge influx of mosquitoes.

The National Institutes of Health claimed that the mosquitoes came from a forest fire 30 miles away. The truth is that those mosquitoes were infected in Canada by DR Guilford B. Reed at Queen's University. They were bred in Belleville, Ontario, and taken down to Punta Gorda and released there.

Within a week, the first five cases ever of chronic fatigue syndrome were reported to the local clinic in Punta Gorda. The cases kept coming until finally 450 people were ill with the disease.

Testing via Mosquito Vector in Ontario

The Government of Canada had established the Dominion Parasite Laboratory in Belleville, Ontario, where it raised 100 million mosquitoes a month. These were shipped to Queen's University and certain other facilities to be infected with this crystalline disease agent.

The mosquitoes were then let loose in certain communities in the middle of the night, so that the researchers could determine how many people would become ill with chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia, which was the first disease to show.

One of the communities they tested it on was the St Lawrence Seaway valley, all the way from Kingston to Cornwall, in 1984. They let out hundreds of millions of infected mosquitoes. Over 700 people in the next four or five weeks developed myalgic encephalomyelitis, or chronic fatigue syndrome."


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