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    Lyme Disease on the rise in Ottawa

    Yeah, it is unfortunate that most of the NE USA and SE Canada got an early bout of warm weather which will definitely bring a rise in the number of tick cases up in Canada. It will be interesting to see how far north they occur though, I mean that is the troubling thing about global warming if...
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    Preventing ticks with essential oils?

    I would imagine that would be prohibitively expensive to keep it applied to all areas of your skin. Avon makes a product called ´Skin so soft´ which is just a moisturizing lotion, but it is so effective at keeping bugs off you that it is actually referenced in many Army manuals and is sold en...
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    Identifying ticks first step in preventing Lyme disease

    It is like a bad cold or a minor case of the flu. Overall, riding on a city bus or an airplane is probably more dangerous ( as far as catching a cold or the flu).
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    7 Ways To Prevent Lyme Disease This Summer

    nah. You can´t just ´avoid forests´ .. again, keep things in perspective. This is a fairly rare disease that is EASILY prevented by removing the tick within 24 hrs. this is a disease that is EASILY treated if you recognize the rash and report it to your doctor. We can´t lock ourselves in...
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    Genetically engineered mice could fight Lyme Disease

    If mice are made immune, and are the leading vector for the mammal part of the bacteria lifecycle, then yes, it could rapidly decrease the amount of infected ticks. My question is just that we don´t know how big of a percentage the mice are compared to deer and other mammals. Is making the...
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    Genetically engineered mice could fight Lyme Disease

    We are not even close to the point where we could, as a society, use genetic engineering on human beings in this way. It isn´t science, it is ethics. For what they are doing, you would literally need to inject DNA into a fetus very early in a pregnancy. So instead of doing it on humans, they...
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    Lyme disease maps

    They are talking about New York the State, not New York City, they are too completely different things. If you look at a map, New York State is huge and is mostly forests similar to central PA. New York City is located at the very SE corner of New York State, and it is doubtful there are many...
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    Genetically engineered mice could fight Lyme Disease

    I think people are misunderstanding what they are actually doing. They are not doing tests on mice in hopes that it someday leads to anything humans must take to prevent ticks. This is not a ´mouse trial´to make sure it is safe for humans later. The mice ARE what they want this strategy to...
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    7 Ways To Prevent Lyme Disease This Summer

    It is simply a matter of waiting for food to be available. Most animals and insects only have two goals in life, eat and reproduce. Ticks get to a state where if there are no mammals nearby, they simply take a nap. There is no use for them to spend time crawling around etc if there is...
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    Identifying ticks first step in preventing Lyme disease

    Ok, a virus also. But tick fever is mostly harmless, you get a fever and a headache for a few days and then it goes away without treatment needed. That is compared to Lyme Disease which can basically be a lifetime condition with debilitating symptoms.
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    Genetically engineered mice could fight Lyme Disease

    When I was a kid I was infactuated with the concept of Recombinant DNA, which is basically what viruses do, they insert their own DNA into normal DNA and allow the host to reproduce the ´bab ´virus for them. Humans began using this in the 1980s and all this stuff is based around it. I also...
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    Genetically engineered mice could fight Lyme Disease

    You would also have to create a way to make it dominant to other types of mice in the area. And that could cause ripple effects if those mice are a major source of food for some higher up animal. This is the type of stuff we did in Florida that lead to native species becoming extinct in a...
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    Identifying ticks first step in preventing Lyme disease

    The presents problems for skin infections, but it wouldn´t impact the transmission of Lyme Disease. If you get the body off and kill the tick, it isn´t going to transmit the bacteria. Again, it takes a long time of being attached until the bacteria can navigate into the humans bloodstream...
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    Over the counter test for ticks - are they Lyme carriers?

    If there was a very cheap test for US that would be great, but finding out if a tick has Lyme Disease is of very limited use and is basically them cashing in on fears. Take this example. Every day for a month I get bit by a different tick that has the bacteria for Lyme. Each day I remove the...
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    What makes Lyme disease tick

    But the comment was that the treatment is cheaper than the prevention. The fact ( in my mind) is that Lyme Disease is rarely diagnosis correctly without the patient mentioning finding a tick, reporting the rash, or mentioning they spend a lot of time in the woods. Lyme disease is rare enough...
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