Lyme disease

If you spend time outdoors camping or gardening you may be worried about getting bitten up by insects. Bug bites are frustrating but some can spread diseases and a tick bite that carries lymes disease is something to watch out for.   Generally insect bites are important to observe as they can cause swelling and if scratched or aggravated result in bacterial infections. . Tick bites are common, but if you are aware of the signs you can analyze and take action.   What's a tick? It is small insects that cling on to the skin and actually consume your blood. This doesn't sound ... Read Full Story

Borreliosis or Lyme disease is quite a new disease; as far as medical science goes. In the USA this disease is cause by a pathogen named Borrelia burgdorferi; however, in Europe is caused by Borrelia afzelii pathogen and Borrelia garinii pathogen. A bite from a certain specie of tick is responsible for the spreading of this disease. The symptoms of Lyme disease are quite apparent and a person suffering from this disease would be inflicted with “fever, headache, fatigue, depression, and a characteristic skin rash called erythema migrans”. If this disease is not treated timely then heart problems may arise and the joints would ... Read Full Story

Lyme Disease and your Goldendoodle Lyme disease can occur in dogs if bitten by a tick. Lyme disease was first discovered in 1975 by Allen Steere, here in the United States. There had been a mysterious outbreak of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis near the community of Lyme, Connecticut. In 1982, the etiologic agent of Lyme disease was discovered by Willy Burgdorfer, who isolated spirochetes belonging to the genus Borrelia from the mid-guts of Ixodes ticks. Lyme disease is the most prevalent tick-borne illness in the United States. As we near the warmer months, Goldendoodle owners need to pay special attention to ticks. Some topical treatments ... Read Full Story

There are several accounts of the invention of the hamburger. All take place in the United States near the end of the nineteenth century.Residents of Hamburg, New York, which was named after Hamburg, Germany, attribute the hamburger to Ohioans Frank and Charles Menches. According to legend, the Menches brothers were vendors at the 1885 Erie County Fair (then called the Buffalo Fair) when they ran out of sausage for sandwiches and used beef instead, naming the result after the location of the fair. Frank Menches's New York Times obituary states instead that these events took place at the 1892 Summit County Fair (in Akron, ... Read Full Story

This looks a helpful book... Hilly x Thirteen Lyme-literate health care practitioners reveal their treatment strategies for chronic Lyme disease in new book. Denver, Colorado—August 31, 2009. A new book, "Insights Into Lyme Disease Treatment: Thirteen Lyme-Literate Health Care Practitioners Share Their Healing Strategies," provides people with Lyme disease and their physicians with current, cutting-edge information on the treatment of chronic Lyme disease and the corollary conditions that it causes. It is a comprehensive resource, written from the perspective of thirteen Lyme disease experts, including eight Lyme-literate medical doctors (MD’s), two naturopathic doctors (ND’s), a “heilpraktiker” (or healing practitioner, as the German title translates ... Read Full Story

Lyme Disease and Dogs - Common Symptoms & Lyme Disease Treatment By Kelly Marshall lymes disease in dogs Lyme disease in puppies is a sickness that is newly recognized. This type of dog disease is transmitted by deer ticks . The disease in pets not only infects puppies but could also infect humans. The two seasons for the largest number of exposure to the disease in pets is during spring through fall. This dog disease appears mostly in the Midwestern and northwestern part of the US. Since 1975, several cases of Lyme disease in pets have been reported in more than 40 states. White-footed ... Read Full Story

Thursday, September 10, 2009 Scam artists used Lyme disease to scare victims, feds allege The U.S. Attorney for Kansas says a California woman, Carole E. Bradford, has been indicted in an alleged Lyme disease scam that also included others, including her husband. Here's how it reportedly worked: The 20-count superseding indictment alleges Carole E. Bradford and the other defendants conspired to violate the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act by conspiring to sell a microscope that supposedly would diagnose Lyme disease, as well as drugs that supposedly would cure the disease. They distributed marketing materials making false claims that Lyme disease was “the plague ... Read Full Story