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Topic: 2007: Almost 1/3 cases were asymptomatic Bb infections

CaliforniaLyme
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1: Przegl Epidemiol. 2007;61(2):385-91.Links

Epidemiology of borreliosis in workers of the district forestry offices in Lower Silesia

Dobracki W, Dobracka B, Paczosa W, Zieba J, Bereś P.Wojew�dzki Szpital Specjalistyczny im. J.Gromkowskiego we Wrocławiu. [email protected]

The work presents epidemiological analysis of Borrelia burgdorferi (B.b.) infections and borreliosis cases in workers of the District Forestry Offices in Lower Silesia in 2003-2005.

The infections rate was proved to be high and increasing in time. In 2003-2005 the presence of B.b. antibodies was noted in 672 (35%) examined people.

In particular District Forestry Offices the rate of positive results was between 19.42-50.50%. In several District Forestry Offices a marked increase of B.b. infections (above 20%) was noted within two tick seasons (2003-2005).

In 2003-2005 796 workers of the District Forestry Offices were under medical care.

In this group more than 96% remembered tick bites. 15.6% of them reported the presence of EM. The evidence of borreliosis in almost 67% of examined workers.

In clinical picture the symptoms of the locomotor system (83.8%) and the peripheral and vegetative nervous systems (54.1%) were dominating. Almost 1/3, cases were asymptomatic of B.b. infections.

PMID: 17956058

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Keebler
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I was curious about the location. Good to see them working on this. Maybe our forest service will, too.

From Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Silesia

Lower Silesia . . .

Throughout its history Lower Silesia has been under the control of medieval Poland, Bohemia, Austria, Prussia, and Germany, and after 1945 was split between Poland and Germany.

After 1945
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From 1945-1975 Lower Silesia was administered within the Wroc?aw Voivodeship. . . .

Reorganisation Act (1975), Poland's administration was reorganized into 49 voivodeships, four of them in Lower Silesia: Jelenia G�ra, Legnica, Wa?brzych, and Wroc?aw Voivodeships (1975-1998). . . .

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Areneli
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They used test ELISA

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roro
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I warned about this!

Look at my post about "what about our children"

I knew this was happening. Too many people exposed to risk factors.

This is going to make AIDS look like a cakewalk.

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daise
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Roro,

I couldn't find, What about our children?\

Daise [confused]

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