One day you decide to go for a hike. It is a beautiful day out and as you are walking back you notice a tiny insect on your leg, no bigger than a millimeter across. You decide to ignore it, but within the next few days you feel tired, feverish, and have a terrible headache. You finally go to the doctor and find out that you have bacteria called borrelia burgdorferi also known as Lyme disease. You may not know about it so you may ask the doctor how you came in contact with it, how it will affect your life, and how to treat it. The answers may shock you, as this disease is very rare and has approximately 30,000 confirmed cases in the U.S. every year.
The cause of this obscure disease is from a type of insect called the blacklegged tick or more commonly known as the deer tick. Deer ticks are frequently found in the North Eastern United States, and often live for two to three years. Their diets consist of the blood from small rodents, moose, and deer hence their name deer ticks. If one of these animals are infected with the disease and are bitten by the tick, it can be carried by blood. Most people come in contact with these minute insects while hiking through brush or tall grass. Because of this fact, the initial bite can be avoided by wearing high socks or long pants and checking for ticks after every hike.
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If you have a bacterial infection such as Lyme disease, you can only cure it by taking an antibiotic. Your doctor can prescribe this to you after they confirm that it is Lyme disease. However, this must be done soon otherwise the medicine is useless. After a treatment course of up to four weeks, the victim of this terrible infection may still have symptoms that can last up to six months. This is only in rare occasions, usually when it has been caught to late. If a person is diligent about taking the medication prescribed, then the rash and other symptoms should be
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Hit A Deer With Your Car? Know About Repairing Your Collision Damage In many parts of the country, deer crossing the road is a common hazard that you have to deal with. Your chances of having a collision with a deer is 1 in 169, with those odds doubling from October through December. If you were lucky enough to not completely total your car, you will need to repair the collision damage that was caused.
Rough Mountain spotted fever is a standout amongst the most generally known tick-borne sicknesses to influence pooches. It has a place with a class of illnesses known as Rickettsia; bar molded microorganisms that take after microbes, yet which act like infections, duplicating just inside living cells. Rickettsia rickettsii is the creature in charge of Rocky Mountain spotted fever lives parasitically in ticks and is transmitted by chomp to vertebrate hosts. Certain breeds will probably add to a serious response to the R. rickettsii life form than others; these incorporate thoroughbred pooches and German shepherds. The signs and indications of Rocky Mountain spotted fever change as per the kind of ailment the puppy has.
This can result in hair loss, which given the cold winters, makes weak, old, and young moose, very susceptible to death during winter months. In the interior, ticks sucking out a moose’s blood diminishes their bone marrow, makes them malnourished, and they suffer from major blood loss (pg. 46). A few ticks do not damage a moose themselves, rather a large amount of ticks work together to harm the animal. Peterson tells about two moose discovered on Isle Royale, which were sent in for testing. They concluded that there were about 25,000 ticks on one and 30,000 on the other, which is only around 25 percent of ticks found on moose in other places, such as Alberta, Canada (pg. 46).
The United States of America abounds with beautiful scenery, amazing natural resources, and fascinating animals. Each state can boast of its unique natural resources. The state of Alaska provides an abundant habitat for numerous species of mammals, fish, and birds. Many species of mammals reside in Alaska. One is of the bear species, the black bear.
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The disease was spread by the vector Rattus rattus and transmitted to people by the fleas. This organism was not new to the world in the fourteenth century, as Europe had experienced the Justinian plague in 542 AD . However, the people of Europe did not have any natural immunity or understanding of the disease caused by a bacterium Yersinia pestis. The people became aware of the relationship between rat and fleas only in late nineteenth century .
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These are the facts about Black Plague and Justianian Plague. I believe the worst symptom was the bulbous because it looks like the size of a gold ball and it have red aches all around
The flea was the disease vector and rats, along with other mammals, were the hosts. A bacteriologist named Theobald Smith discovered that ticks and other arthropods can transmit diseases such as Texas cattle fever. His
The Bubonic Plague, is a disease that is caused by Yersinia pestis. This bacteria is found in rodents, such as rats. Fleas feed on these rats, and it can be passed to humans through flea bites. The Bubonic Plague was first seen in China, yet it came to Europe in the year 1347 with the use of Genoise Ships. These ships would bring the contaminated rats across the Black Sea.
Whereas this plague normally only affects five people or so a year. It is not very common for humans to contract this plague, but every so often it happens. The problem is this disease has been contracted much than usual during these past few months. In the past two months twelve people have contracted this disease, which is more the yearly average.
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Most people get infected from a bite of an immature tick, which are close to the size of the head of the pin, making the bite painless and hard to detect at the time of the bite. The transmission of Lyme is more likely the longer the tick is attached. Ticks may stay attached for days if undisturbed, making it more likely to get the
In special cases, Yersinia Pestis bacteria would get into the skin if a human had a