Tick-borne disease

Isn’t everyone entitled to medical care if they fall ill? Lyme disease patients in Australia are denied the treatment that they rightfully deserve because the Australian Government refuses to accept and acknowledge the fact that the disease exists in our country. Lyme disease is the fastest growing tick-borne illness in the world and is transferred through a tick bite from a tick infected with the disease, characteristically creating a bullseye shaped rash but can also be transferred from mother…

Any mammal or human has to be bit by a blacklegged tick in order to get infected and sick with Lyme disease. Lyme disease in the northeast and Midwest United States is mainly carried in two major types of tick species, Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes Dammini (34). In the northwestern United States the main tick species that carries the causative agent of Lyme disease is Ixodes Pacificus. This disease is the most common vector borne disease in the U.S., with particular cases outnumbering those of…

Regenerative Medicine Expert Discusses 5 Ways to Avoid Summer Tick Bites Summer is in full swing, which means gardening, outdoor play, hiking – and tick bites. More than an annoying seasonal nuisance, tick bites are to blame for an estimated 300,000 cases of Lyme disease annually. Thousands more are diagnosed with tick-borne diseases such as the Heartland virus infection, the flulike anaplasmosis, and the marlarialike disease babesiosis. Fortunately, the regenerative medicine specialists at…

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…

Hepatitis B and C are some infectious diseases in state prison. The aforementioned diseases are transmitted in the prison through the use of illicit drug, or Controlled Dangerous Substance (CDS) among the inmates. Transmission of these diseases also occurs through unprotected sexual intercourse in prison. Prison overcrowding can be seen as one of the element that causes vast spread of these contagious diseases in prison. Inmates are vulnerable to contagious diseases as a result of their exposure…

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,…

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 the United States…

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…

Beginning in the late 1980s, SFF afflicted with tick paralysis have been described in populations from the Atherton Tablelands in Queensland, Australia (8). The tick has been identified as Ixodes holocyclus (7), one of two paralysis ticks found in eastern Australia (9). One main theory has been presented describing why these arboreal animals have been so adversely affected by a tick that is considered to be ground dwelling. As the natural foraging habitat of the SFF is eliminated, the bats are…

Lyme disease is a type of bacterial infection. People who live in wooded areas tend to get the disease more often because the infection is transmitted by ticks. The tick must bite a person and be attached for at least 36-48 hours in order to transmit the infection. The tick releases a bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi. The bacterium will enter through the skin and eventually enter your blood stream causing various symptoms. In the early stages of the disease a person may experience a rash…