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My husband and I posted here a few weeks ago tryng to find a Lyme literate doctor in Texas. Though we though the tick bite came from Georgia and we found the tick after we got home to Texas. But after you go to the link they say you will see that they are including all southern states including Texas. We just wanted to share something with you who are trying to find LLAD's. CDC says this to us in an e mail that: "There is currently no evidence of ongoing Lyme disease transmission in Georgia. The ecology of the blacklegged tick does not support transmission to humans in this area. With this being said, there is a tick-borne illness which resembles Lyme disease in many ways, called Southern Tick Associated Rash-like Illness. The link below will provide you with more information on this illness. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/stari/index.htm Let us know if you have any more questions. Sincerely, " YOu may have to copy and past the link. Seems to us this is some kinda cover up... They say it comes from a tick, looks like Lyme, acts like Lyme, you treat it like Lyme but... it isn't Lyme HUH???? Seems to me IF that were true than all these doctors who don't know about Lyme would know about this "other" tick illness... ?????
-------------------- "Next time I am biting the tick first" Posts: 4 | From Waco, Texas | Registered: May 2006
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STARI is similar to Lyme it is very hard to test for and the symptoms are generally milder than that of Lyme but I have heard it is even harder to get rid of than Lyme.
And about that CDC statement "No Lyme in Georgia" "DON'T YOU BELIEVE IT."
When I first started going to my LLMD. I told him what the CDC and two of my doctors have said, "there is no Lyme in Georgia." He said "Thats interesting, you are the fourth patient from Georgia today and it isn't even noon yet."
The tick that bit me was just a standard dog (wood) tick. My symptoms started shortly after that. Whether that was the tick that actually gave me Lyme or not no one will ever know.
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They really are a bunch of nuts up there at the CDC! Go figure! They keep insisting that ticks don't travel across state lines, and neither do pets, or birds, or cattle, or deer, or.....
Waco, huh? Maybe you know my aunt!
-------------------- --Lymetutu-- Opinions, not medical advice! Posts: 96222 | From Texas | Registered: Feb 2001
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They can't even read the scientific lit which shows the deer ticks are in the south, and are infected with Bb and other germs. This is beyond incompetence. How do people like this get hired at all?
We should start keeping a file of this crap, so when someone comes along that will help us sue the govt, we have all this nonsense ready to throw at them in court.
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The Lone Star Tick inhabits all of the Southeastern states including the Lone Star state.
There is ample evidence that the Lone Star Tick transmits Borrelia burgdorferi. The CDC is probably waiting for a flood of evidence to bowl them over before they belatedly fess up.
"The Texas Department of Health Laboratory cultured arthropods from November 1988 through December 1989 in an attempt to isolate Borrelia burgdorferi, the etiologic agent of Lyme disease. Spirochetes were isolated from eight of 1,093 pools of arthropods cultured. The spirochetal isolates were from several tick and one flea species, including Amblyomma americanum, A. maculatum, Ixodes scapularis, and Ctenocephalides felis. These 8 isolates reacted specifically when treated with monoclonal antibodies to B. burgdorferi. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of six lysates showed them to be virtually identical with strain B31 of B. burgdorferi."
-------------------- --Lymetutu-- Opinions, not medical advice! Posts: 96222 | From Texas | Registered: Feb 2001
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ok, that's it. i'm going to my dog's vet for treatment.
When I took my dog in, he said i didn't look too good and i said, yeah well lyme. he said OMG, you're the second person this week with lyme!!!
so there's lots of us that the CDC doesn't recognize. my vet knows more than any doctor i've been to.. hmmmm, how do i get him to treat me now.........
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Interestingly enough, my LLMD uses STARI sometimes with my insurance company (Aetna), and so far they have paid. If you weren't confused to begin with....
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