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A Major Lyme Disease Outbreak Is Coming; Here’s How You Can Protect Yourself

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Lyme disease makes every trip to the outdoors a little less fun. The threat of this tick-borne pathogen forces us to take extra precautions every time we venture out into nature. Fortunately, Lyme disease mainly proliferates in a few specific regions of the country, such as the Northeast and the Great Lakes region. The majority of Americans only have to worry about the ticks themselves, and not the diseases they carry. There are still plenty of wilderness areas that lie just outside of Lyme disease hotspots.

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However, many of the places that everyone assumes are safe from this disease, may not be in the near future. In fact, we may be facing a massive Lyme disease outbreak this summer, and this event is probably going to spread the disease to areas surrounding the typical hotspots. And unfortunately, most of the people living in those areas have no idea.

That’s the determination of Dr. Richard Ostfeld, a disease ecologist who currently lives in New York. Ostfeld has found a unique way to tell if there’s about to be a major Lyme disease outbreak.  It has to do with how many acorns the forests are producing. The more acorns there are in a given season, the more ticks and Lyme disease there will be. Due to warmer weather conditions, there are a lot more acorns than usual.

So how could a floor of acorns two years ago tell Ostfeld, a disease ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York, that 2017 would see an outbreak of Lyme disease? It’s all down to what happens next.

A bumper crop of the seeds – “like you were walking on ball bearings” – comes along every two to five years in Millbrook. Crucially, these nutrient-packed meals swell the mouse population: “2016 was a real mouse plague of a year,” he says. And mouse plagues bring tick plagues.

Soon after hatching, young ticks start “questing” – grasping onto grasses or leaves with their hind legs and waving their forelegs, ready to hitch a ride on whatever passes by, usually a mouse.

Once on board, the feast begins. Just one mouse can carry hundreds of immature ticks in their post-larval nymph stage.

This is where the problems for us start. Mouse blood carries the Lyme-causing bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, which passes to a tick’s gut as it feeds. The tick itself is unharmed, but each time it latches onto a new host to feed, the bacteria can move from its gut to the blood – including that of any human passers-by.

“We predict the mice population based on the acorns and we predict infected nymph ticks with the mice numbers. Each step has a one year lag,” Ostfeld says.

And this isn’t just a problem for New York. The number of Lyme disease cases is expected to climb throughout the United States and Europe over the next two years. Fortunately, there are measures you can take to avoid Lyme disease no matter where you live.

First, take a look at where this disease has popped up, and see if you live near any of the hotspots. Then look up how to properly remove ticks, and the measures you can take to avoid them in the first place. You should also learn the elusive symptoms of Lyme disease so you can seek medical treatment before the disease ravages your body. And finally, you can purchase natural bug repellents, which are perhaps your best defense against ticks.

Joshua Krause was born and raised in the Bay Area. He is a writer and researcher focused on principles of self-sufficiency and liberty at Ready Nutrition. You can follow Joshua’s work at our Facebook page or on his personal Twitter.

Joshua’s website is Strange Danger

This information has been made available by Ready Nutrition

Originally published May 3rd, 2017


Source: http://readynutrition.com/resources/a-major-lyme-disease-outbreak-is-coming-heres-how-you-can-protect-yourself_03052017/


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    • KRR

      Lyme Disease is already prevelant outside those regions typically associated with it. I know. I have it. Anyone can get it as it can be spread much easier and in more ways than by specific types of ticks. Please learn as much as you can about this disease because chances are that an increasing number of people will be impacted by someone they know that has it. If caught early, it is much easier to deal with. Unfortunately, due to lack of adequate information people are not getting diagnosed early enough and it becomes a chronic and an even fatal illness. Unfortunately, the medical community is not much help if you happen to get it. There are only a small number of Lyme Literate physicians who know how to diagnose and treat the disease properly. Unfortunately, most don’t take insurance so this disease can be financially devastating as well as physically debilitating. Also, ticks most often carry more than just Lyme Disease. There are multiple co-infections associated with them. Tick borne diseases come in many forms, so even if Lyme itself is not present, some of the others are just as bad if not worse. One tick bite left me with 2 strains of Lyme and 5 other tick borne diseases. It mimics many other conditions so chances are if someone should have symptoms of chronic fatigue and/ or fibromyalgia, they should get checked because Lyme might be the culprit. My final warning would be if you should happen to be bitten by a tick, go to your doctor immediately and insist upon at least a month of antibiotics (typically doxycycline). Don’t wait until symptoms arrive. Educate yourself. There is a good documentary which you can watch online called “Under our Skin” which is an excellent primer on Lyme Disease. Awareness is key to fighting this disease. My hope in sharing this information is for others to benefit from my experience and to spare them from suffering from this dreadful disease.

    • Cinders777

      Yeah, I got lyme, too but I didn’t get it from a damn tick! I got it from a spider bite so don’t believe the BS that you can only get it from a tick and that you need the so-called bulls-eye rash (I got a bruise). The dumb ass doctors (rheumatologists) still insist that it’s “rare” for anyone to get lyme. Oh really? Why are vets promoting vaccination and testing for lyme all the time? Because they’re more knowledgeable than your typical MD’s!!!

      Here is some info that is not generally known about lyme:
      Lyme (& co-infections) can cause problems with your eyes resulting in BLINDNESS! They don’t mention this too often. Need to keep this problem hush-hush because it’s a doozie!

      There is some evidence that lyme spirochetes can be transmitted sexually. (Don’t mention this one too much either because it’s not nice.)

      All I can say is, find some natural bug spray and use it all the time, every day you’re outside. If you get sick, good luck trying to get treated! Most lyme literate doctors already have a huge case load and are not taking new patients. Those that are, charge a small fortune and don’t take medical insurance. (I tend to think these jokesters are really quacks or just out to make a quick buck.) The out-of-network doctors I’ve worked with will not fill out disability paperwork for any reason. So if you’re unable to get treatment and/or a lyme diagnosis? Your chances are minimal for SSDI approval and you’ll probably end up divorced, broke, and homeless.

      If you don’t feel good and think it’s lyme? My suggestion is to go to a vet. You’ll get better care and immediate attention. Go to an MD, get a pat on the head, maybe a prescription for an anti-depressant and told to see a therapist. :mad:

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