Borrelia

infestations can lead to crusty looking rashes with numerous black spots. The black spots are blood filled fecal pellets. Lice are known to transmit epidemic typhus, caused by Rickettsia prowazekii. They also can cause epidemic relapsing fever, caused by Borrelia recurrentis. Lice are easy to recognize. The symptoms are experiencing persistent itching and redness, particularly on the scalp, back of head, or pubic region or noticing white nits at the ends of hair (Bohart Museum of Entomology,…

Why It's Real A recent study revealed that patients with chronic fatigue syndrome have low levels of cytokines in their blood, especially in the early stages of the illness. Cytokines are proteins made by the cells of the immune system. They are responsible for blocking viral replication and driving inflammatory response. Where You Can Do More Research http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/clues-the-immune-system-is-behind-chronic-fatigue-syndrome http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-y…

found in people with gastric MALT lymphoma. •Chlamydia psittaci, this is linked with people who have MALT lymphoma in the tear gland and around the eye. •Campylobacter jejuni, this is linked with people who have MALT lymphoma in the bowel. •Borrelia burgdorferi, this causes Lyme disease and can be linked with MALT lymphoma in the skin. However lymphoma is not infectious and therefore you can not catch or spread it. Family history Lymphoma is not inherited therefore it is not passed…

yards from a big wooded area and the river as well and from about April until the end of September ticks are increasingly active. In this particular area we have a lot of deer which also can potentially mean a lot of ticks. Ticks carry the bacterium Borrelia burgdoferi and can be transmitted through a bite of “backlegeed” ticks. The reason I am so scared and concerned about Lyme Disease is because just the symptoms alone can make your life miserable. The symptoms of Lyme Disease include a…

The history of climate change as a science can be traced back to the 1860s, when physicist John Tyndall conducted experiments to understand molecular physics, particularly the heat-absorbing abilities of atmospheric gases. Tyndall found that molecules absorb more heat than their individual atomic components, and that the naturally-occurring greenhouse gas nitric oxide absorbs approximately one thousand times more infrared energy than nitrogen or oxygen alone. The concept of climate change as a…

What is biodiversity? Introduction Biodiversity is defined as the variety of life on Earth at all its levels and includes genes to ecosystems, as well as the ecological and evolutionary processes that sustain it (Cardinale, 2012). The Earth’s biodiversity has long been a source of wonderment and scientific curiosity, but is increasingly becoming a source of concern. The sheer diversity of life is of inestimable value. Biodiversity has a number of functions on Earth, from providing a foundation…