posted
I was just reading some of the newbie links on here...lyme can be trans. by fleas and mosquitos? Why don't we hear about this? I don't understand why dr's don't know about this stuff. It's very upsetting. I've had more flea bites than I can count!
Cutie
-------------------- Cutie Posts: 125 | From Atlanta | Registered: Dec 2005
| IP: Logged |
treepatrol
Honored Contributor (10K+ posts)
Member # 4117
posted
Hey cutie read Newbie Links at top of medical. Theres more to lyme than medical community,gov, would have you believe.
-------------------- Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Remember Iam not a Doctor Just someone struggling like you with Tick Borne Diseases.
posted
"Lyme transmitted by fleas and mosquitos???".....
....Yep....and gnats, bedbugs, spiders, biting flies......and all other manner of biting insects. Also snake and lizard bites. Oh, and get this!...breastfeeding and some say through sexual contact....even been found in standing water and african dust.....but don't worry, your government protectors are quite busy protecting us from UBL and that "rare and easy to treat" lyme disease.
Once you take the red pill you begin to see the "matrix" for what it really is..................one big lie.
Welcome to the real world cutie. Now hang on tight 'cause we ain't in Kansas no more.
Posts: 294 | From nevada | Registered: Sep 2005
| IP: Logged |
map1131
Frequent Contributor (5K+ posts)
Member # 2022
posted
Any blood sucking biting insect or even spiders carry all types of bacteria, virus, parasites. Strep, staph, e-coli. The list goes on and on.
Ticks & biting spiders aren't insects, they are actually acarids. Different types of flies like horse flies and deer flies also carry many bad bad guys.
It's a scary thought. That's why the lyme experts believe that there are actually about 250,000 new cases of lyme disease and vector borne illnesses every year. CDC only gets reports on 20,000 a year.
When the real story does come out, there is going to be some serious questioning of the CDC and NIH. I've got to believe this is going to happen.
Someone needs to be asking why millions of Americans are disabled with these syndromes labeled chronic fatigue, fibromyagia, lyme, MS, lupus, etc etc.
If they want to help the Social Security & Medicare problems, someone better start getting serious addressing vector borne illnesses.
Cutie, you got me going on my soap box. I better get down now before I fall down. lol
Take care, Pam
-------------------- "Never, never, never, never, never give up" Winston Churchill Posts: 6495 | From Louisville, Ky | Registered: Jan 2002
| IP: Logged |
cantgiveupyet
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 8165
posted
Thanks for the laugh welcome........i liked the matrix.. and your right your reality sure does change going thru all this.
The gov better start taking a look.....but then again look how they handled the hurricane.... so typical.
i was bit by tons of flies in august..the large green ones..which i think added to my nightmare. Woke up every morning with new bites on my stomach too. sigh......i had no clue.
-------------------- "Say it straight simple and with a smile."
"Thus the task is, not so much to see what no one has seen yet, But to think what nobody has thought yet, About what everybody sees."
-Schopenhauer
pos babs, bart, igenex WB igm/igg Posts: 3156 | From Lyme limbo | Registered: Oct 2005
| IP: Logged |
posted
Last summer, my husband squashed a fairly large mosquito while it was sucking on my little one's back.
By the next day, there was a bullseye (or what looked like one) right around the bite.
The LLMD was puzzled when looking at the picture. We discussed it and we weren't sure whether it was more probable that the mosquito was carrying lyme and gave it to him then or whether the mosquito was carrying lyme and awakened the latent bacteria in his body (as I suspect he was born with lyme).
Anyhoo, if I had a way to do it, I'd post a picture here.
Pea
-------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~ I am SO not a doctor, just another lymie trying to sort out this mess, so, everyday I think... Obla di, Obla da... Posts: 552 | From Right here | Registered: Dec 2002
| IP: Logged |
tailz
Unregistered
posted
"When the real story does come out, there is going to be some serious questioning of the CDC and NIH. I've got to believe this is going to happen."
I don't ever remember a tick bite. I DO remember being the target of mosquitos as a child. I'd gotten MANY 3-4 inch mosquito bites, just swellings though, no rings whatsover.
In 1989, consequently one year before being diagnosed with 'depression, anxiety, panic attacks, and obsessive compulsive disorder or OCD', we had rented a flea-infested house.
I had about 100 bites PER ankle at any given time for one year. My daughter had anywhere from 8-10 bites that year. We are still awaiting her results.
Jussst ticks? Nope. I'm living proof of that. I sure hope they unveil this monster soon. I would love to see the look on the ID doctor's face who told me one week before I got my results that, "Your symptoms are not consistent with Lyme. I see no reason to give you antibiotics."
IP: Logged |
5dana8
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 7935
posted
Here's a link. Scroll down to the chart at the bottom & look under " Typical tick host"- It mentionefd assorted fleas as well as lice:
posted
mosquitoes can absolutely transmit lyme disease.
the magnarelli study, if you bother to read it, specifically excludes mosquitoes of the culex genus. that goes for anything andrew spielman has ever pubbed as well.
In poland and czech republic, roughly 2% of all culex pipiens mosquitoes are found infected with lyme.
In the US northeast, the percentage is likely higher, because for some bizarre reason, the northeastern US has a population of mutant hybrid culex mosquitoes, which are seen nowhere else in the world basically.
In the rest of the world, culex pipiens are divided into essentially two species..Culex pipiens pipiens, and culex pipiens molestus. one species bites only birds, while the other bites only mammals. in the US, these hybrids bite both birds AND mammals. since birds are a significant reservoir of Bb s.s. in the wild {at least some species} the mutant mosquito factor likely leads to a higher percentage of mosquitoes infected with lyme, and a greater danger to humans since these mosquitoes can go on to bite mammals later on.
Posts: 523 | From Stillwater,OK,USA | Registered: Sep 2004
| IP: Logged |
The Lyme Disease Network is a non-profit organization funded by individual donations. If you would like to support the Network and the LymeNet system of Web services, please send your donations to:
The
Lyme Disease Network of New Jersey 907 Pebble Creek Court,
Pennington,
NJ08534USA http://www.lymenet.org/
UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!
![[dizzy]](graemlins/dizzy.gif)
Printer-friendly view of this topic