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#lymedisease

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CaledonMoneypit 🇨🇦

Good Morning #Canada
Yesterday, I removed the 3rd #Tick of the season from our dog Harley, meaning a likely nasty summer ahead for these blood-sucking pests. Hikers, gardeners, dog owners, and visitors to parks need to be vigilant and look for ticks after every outside adventure. A warming planet has allowed ticks to expand their territory in Canada by more than 46 square kilometers every year. Protect yourself.

#CanadaIsAwesome #LymeDisease #BeSafeOutThere
ticktalkcanada.com/geographic-

Tick TalkGeographic Expansion - Tick Talk
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Els ten Napel

Vijf artsen werden patiënt en vertellen wat dat met hen deed en hoe ze nu tegen hun vak aankijken.

Fantastische documentaire over de impact van het leven met een post-acuut infectieuze ziekte als ME, Long Covid, chronische lyme.

Diepe buiging voor Anil van der Zee, de vijf artsen en de mensen die hieraan verder meewerkten.

#MECFS #ChronicLyme #lymedisease #LongCovid #PhysiciansAsPatients

youtu.be/J0ywwLIfH_w?si=8-QKHS

YouTubeDoctors as Patients (with subtitles)By Anil about ME
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VeeRat

EDIT FOR UPDATE:
I went to my doctor's office today. Thankfully, my doctor agreed that we need to wait and retest, thank you all for responding that my test may have been too early! My doctor was not certain whether the vertigo is due to a tick disease or something else, she says the physical therapy I'm doing will take some time, even if it's vertigo not related to an illness.

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I think it is the case that there isn't adequate testing to always diagnose Lyme disease? I was bitten by a tick a couple weeks ago, and most of the Lyme blood tests have returned Negative. Most, except for one of the categories under IgM which returned as Equivocal. The lab says at least two categories need to be positive in order to consider a Lyme diagnosis, so my doctor says it is a Negative result.

I have had vertigo for almost two weeks now, which started a few days after the bite. My doctor gave me physical therapy exercises, which haven't helped.

I am seeing my doctor again tomorrow. Is there anything that someone experienced with Lyme would suggest that I ask? Does it seem possible that the vertigo could be a result of the bite? Yes, I know asking for medical advice online is dicey. Just checking in on thoughts for me to consider before I see the doctor tomorrow, as I have been misdiagnosed multiple times with other things by doctors, and I don't know enough about Lyme testing to know if the IgG and IgM tests are adequate.

#Lyme#LymeDisease#TickBorneDiseases
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nemo™ 🇺🇦

A groundbreaking mRNA vaccine offers hope in the fight against Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses! 🦠🩺 By inducing "tick resistance," it prevents infection and reduces pathogen transmission. Learn more about this innovative approach here: statnews.com/2023/07/31/acquir #LymeDisease #Vaccines #HealthTech #oldnewz

STAT · I’m a tick biologist whose body seems to kill off ticksBad news: You have to get bitten a lot to acquire this superpower. At least for now.
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Rasta

This is New Boomstick.
Density, highest in South, our North.

What defines a BITE?
I've had ticks attached to me, pulled off, but how long were they there? Less than 24 hours.
It's too late, after they spread disease. My routine, is Tick Check every time after outdoor activities.

Ever been bitten by a tick?

On Park Gravel -Black Leg Tick
3 pepper size - chest -
3 adults, neck, legs, arm.

RV Park - LoneStar
1 - shoulder

cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswi #Ticks #LymeDisease #NewBrunswick #Health

CBCEver been bitten by a tick? A scientist wants to know | CBC NewsA research lab focusing on ticks has embarked on a project to assess how effective preventive Lyme disease measures are and hopes people who have been bitten will help.
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DrJMiddleton

Paper by me (+ Cooper & Rott) on Tick hazard in the South Downs National Park (UK) + how to control without reducing ecosystem health. Free-to-read in @PeerJ at: peerj.com/articles/17483

Funders: @britishdeersoc , @BritishEcolSoc

ABSTRACT:
Background. #SouthDowns National Park (SDNP) is UK’s most visited #NationalPark, and a focus of tick-borne #Lymedisease. UK's first presumed locally acquired cases of #TBE and #babesiosis were recorded in 2019–20. The #SouthDownsNationalPark aims to conserve wildlife and encourage recreation, so interventions are needed that reduce hazard without negatively affecting ecosystem health. To be successful these require knowledge of site hazards.

Methods. British Deer Society members submitted ticks removed from deer. Key potential intervention sites were selected and six 50 m2 transects drag-sampled per site (mostly twice yearly for 2 years). #Ticks were identified in-lab (sex, life stage, species), hazard measured as tick presence, density of ticks (all life stages, DOT), and density of nymphs (DON). Sites and habitat types were analysed for association with hazard. Distribution was mapped by combining our results with records from five other sources.

Results. A total of 87 Ixodes ricinus (all but one adults, 82% F) were removed from 14 deer (10 Dama dama; three Capreolus capreolus; one not recorded; tick burden, 1–35) at 12 locations (commonly woodland). Five key potential intervention sites were identified and drag-sampled 2015–16, collecting 623 ticks (238 on-transects): 53.8% nymphs, 42.5% larvae, 3.7% adults (13 M, 10 F). Ticks were present on-transects at all sites: I. ricinus at three (The Mens (TM); Queen Elizabeth Country Park (QECP); Cowdray Estate (CE)), Haemaphysalis punctata at two (Seven Sisters Country Park (SSCP); Ditchling Beacon Nature Reserve (DBNR)). TM had the highest DOT at 30/300 m2 (DON = 30/300 m2), followed by QECP 22/300 m2 (12/300 m2), CE 8/300 m2 (6/300 m2), and SSCP 1/300 m2 (1/300 m2). For I. ricinus, nymphs predominated in spring, larvae in the second half of summer and early autumn. The overall ranking of site hazard held for DON and DOT from both seasonal sampling periods. DBNR was sampled 2016 only (one adult H. punctata collected). Woodland had significantly greater hazard than downland, but ticks were present at all downland sites. I. ricinus has been identified in 33/37 of SDNPs 10 km2 grid squares, Ixodes hexagonus 10/37, H. punctata 7/37, Dermacentor reticulatus 1/37.

Conclusions. Mapping shows tick hazard broadly distributed across SDNP. I. ricinus was most common, but H. punctata’s seeming range expansion is concerning. Recommendations: management of small heavily visited high hazard plots (QECP); post-visit precaution signage (all sites); repellent impregnated clothing for deerstalkers; flock trials to control H. punctata (SSCP, DBNR). Further research at TM may contribute to knowledge on ecological dynamics underlying infection density and predator re-introduction/protection as public health interventions. #EcologicalResearch on H. punctata would aid control. SDNP Authority is ideally placed to link and champion policies to reduce hazard, whilst avoiding or reducing conflict between public health and ecosystem health.

#OneHealth#PlanetaryHealth#TickAware
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Elric Wolfsbruder ✡️♿🇺🇦

oh fuck me fuck me fuck me fuck my g-d damned life!!!

I just got off the phone with Group Death, err wwait it's Kaiser Medical these days.

So many many years ago, when I was still functional I got bitten by a Lyme tick at Fort Casey here in the PNW.

I went to Group Death err Group Health the next day because I had the perfect bullseye mark on my leg. and the nurse refused to believe me about what it was, because "there is no lyme ticks in the PNW, they exist only on the east coast in New England". I knew for a fact she was wrong, there are ~20 cases reported a year to the CDC, and even more after the symptoms show, which by then is too late, you have a window of just scant days to get antibiotics, because people don't know what to look for. And I started to become less than polite the more she pushed back and denied what I was saying or or even listening to me.

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