Lyme Disease Prevalence Warning in the Press

Thank you for sharing it's very apparent that this problem is hugely serious now and we should all check ourselves thoroughly as a matter of habit.
 
Finally an awareness seems to be getting about, our vets has a selection of large models of the various pest species on the front desk, along with the real sizes of them & the diseases they carry / pass on.
 
Just a FYI;
Ticks have been around since before the Dinosaurs and now a Professor, Shoumo Bhattacharya is doing research into using Tick spit to treat people who have suffered heart attacks.
There might yet be a positive side to the Tick!
Got this from British Heart Foundation magazine.
Regards,Ken.
 
Another FYI

Both dogs and horses can be infected with lyme/borreliosis.

PHE seems to have caught up with their diagnoses protocols and now test twice at 3 to 4 week interval if negative on first test or repeatedly if test indeterminate but blood test still not absolutely definite as Confidence Values on the C6 peptide VlsE test are pretty wide.In plain english you can still be suffering lyme/borreliosis with negative blood tests in a significant minority of cases.What they don't draw attention to is the Jarisch herxheimer reaction when treatment starts.This is when the patient feels that bloody awful for a day or two when they just want to die before recovering gradually.
 
Stan Coxon who shoots over Wiltshire and Gloucestershire is just recovering from Lymes. Thankfully his Dr was on the ball and even though he didn't have the standard "Bulls-eye" rash his Dr had him tested and it proved positive. I am investing in some anti-tick clothing for next year!

Simon
 
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Just a FYI;
Ticks have been around since before the Dinosaurs and now a Professor, Shoumo Bhattacharya is doing research into using Tick spit to treat people who have suffered heart attacks.
There might yet be a positive side to the Tick!
Got this from British Heart Foundation magazine.
Regards,Ken.

Tick spit ...... I bet that's like rocking horse poo :doh:

How you going to collect that?
 
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