Topic: 36% of Bay Area residents have been unknowingly bitten by ticks
Angelica
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From the San Francisco Chronicle
You can find this entire article on the Igenex website
The California Legislature recently passed Resolution No. 103, declaring the month of May Lyme awareness month.
Yet, despite this fact, the larger medical community of California still doesn't recognize the seriousness of this illness. Many doctors continue to tell patients they can't even contract Lyme disease here.
Research by UC Berkeley entomologist, Robert Lane, proves otherwise.
His independent studies show that 36 percent of the residents of the San Francisco Bay Area have antibodies to tick saliva of I. pacificus -- indicating that they have unknowingly been bitten.
Lane says that if a person is infected with a California strain of Borrelia burgdorferi, the corkscrew-shaped bacteria that causes Lyme disease, there is a 20 percent chance they will get a false negative on a test that does not specifically use a California strain in the mix.
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Wow, just wow. Do you have the link to the study? I would like to pass that along..
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This is a reminder about tick bites for those people who say "I never saw a tick".
Ticks come in different sizes some are very very tiny and they can bite you and you may never see them or get a bulls eye rash.
As one other poster mentioned they can bite you in places where you would not see them.
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Maybe some people form antibodies that kill ticks which is why they don't get infected? My hyperbaric doc's youngest child, her son, never got sick tho the rest of the family did with lyme and babesia and bartonella etc. She actually found a dead tick on him--it had tried to bite and just died. Interesting thought.
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It is an interesting thought and if they would do more research we might know why some people get sick and other don't and how to better help the ones who do get sick.
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