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lived. Mary Anning was born on the 21 May, 1799 in the small coastal town of Lyme Regis, Dorset, England . She was only one of two children to survive infancy, along with her brother Joseph . Mary was named initially named after her elder sister Mary, who perished in a house fire at the age of four . At the age of 14 months, Mary had already achieved local infamy by surviving death. After a torrential downpour started on 19 August 1800 during a horse-riding demonstration, a group of four including Mary found shelter under a nearby tree . The tree was struck with lightning and despite all odds, Mary was the lone survivor, after being brought back to life with warm water 6. Anning grew up in a seaside home with: mother, Mary Moore, father, Richard Anning, and brother where she lived her entire life. Richard, was a trades carpenter and cabinet maker, but had a curiosity for collecting fossils . During Anning’s childhood it was Richard who took Mary (and Joseph) on “fossil hunting expeditions” teaching them techniques on finding fossils 7. Richard soon realized his collecting could become lucrative, thanks to the international rise in fossils findings and the growing curiosity over their existence . At the time of Anning’s childhood much of England was struggling with poverty, recovering from the Napoleonic and civil wars as well as religious conflict, taking greater impact on isolate small towns such as Lyme 8. Her only education was Congregationalist services at the Independent…

Geographic Expansion of Lyme Disease 2015 In August 2015, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published volume 21-8 of its journal, Emerging Infectious Diseases (EIFD) on www.nc.cdc.gov. It contained a study by Dr. Kugeler, “an epidemiologist with the Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Bacterial Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.” (Dr. Kugeler, CDC, 2015) In this study titled, “Geographic Distribution and Expansion of…

Spotted fever group rickettsioses present a threat to human health worldwide. These bacteria are the cause of potentially fatal febrile illnesses in humans. They are transmitted by arthropod vectors such as ticks, mites, fleas and lice, which are associated with vertebrate host animals including rodents and companion animals. Background Rickettsia are obligate intracellular bacteria that are widely distributed throughout the world, causing both emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases…

Lyme disease is something that can affect every single person. Lyme Disease is an infection caused when an infected deer tick of the “Ixodes genus” breed bites a person and transfers the bacteria named “borrelia” directly into the human. It is the borrelia type bacteria that cause the allergic reaction to humans. Upon contracting the disease it can cause numerous health hazards for humans. The typical symptoms upon contracting the disease include fever, fatigue, and headache. There is also a…

Introduction/epidemiology Lyme’s disease is a transmitted disease from ticks, once the tick bites you, a small red bite mark will appear. A normal bite will disappear in a couple of days and does not indicate that you have Lyme’s disease. If that bite mark does not disappear and you get the following symptoms at first, you might have Lyme’s disease. The symptoms of Lyme disease are: a rash and flu-like symptoms. For the rash, three to thirty days after the bite that is considered infective,…

The Hepatozoon canis is a protozoan that inhabits the peripheral blood of domestic dogs. The natural host is a tick, Amblyomma maculatum. It reaches its sexual maturity in this tick. The tick obtains gametocytes from the neutrophils or monocytes in the peripheral blood of a dog. The gametocytes the come together to form an ookinete. The ookinete then go into the stomach of the tick and become an oocyst. Several Sporocysts form inside of an oocyst and these sporocysts contain 12-24 sporozoites.…

Lyme disease is found worldwide and the most commonly reported vector-borne disease in North America and Europe. The disease is transmitted by the bite of a deer tick (Ixodes Scapularis) harboring bacteria named Borrelia burgdorferii (b. burgdorferi) in North America and Borrelia afzelii and Borrelia garinii in Europe and Asia. The first documentation of the disease occurred in 1883 when Dr. Alfred Buchwald treated a German patient with erythema migrans; A bulls-eye pattern rash that occurs in…

Scientifically known as Boreliosis, Lyme disease is an infection which derives from spirochete bacteria that diffuse through the skin and bloodstream by lxodes ticks (Lymedisease.org). Throughout the United States, these arachnids are found in any area that is wet, moist, wooden or grassy. Lyme disease is an overlook chronic disease because early symptoms of nymph bites are not perceptible. In fact, there is an estimate that each year around 300,000 people are diagnose with Lyme disease in…

Lyme Disease Education There are many diseases in the world such as influenza, rubella and lice. There is one particular disease that will be discussed in depth in this report called Lyme disease. This report will further explain the details of the disease and public health strategies. Ticks Lyme disease is a disease you may get if a tick bites you. Lyme disease is caused by bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi. The bacteria is corkscrew-shaped. Ixodes ticks which are also know as…

As kids or even now as adults we worry so little of contracting infectious disease, we do not realize that our environment is home to numerous of organisms that are harmful. For example, a single bite of a bug such as a tick can completely change your life. A tick bite can potentially lead to Lyme disease, which can become a severe illness. According to Sanjuna (et al 2018) “about 300,000 new cases per year are recorded world wide” (p.1) turning into the leading cause of tick borne diseases.…