News 4 Jax : reported that Lyme Disease expected to explode this summer

Tick season is here and it could be the worst one in decades when it comes to tick-borne diseases.That's because Lyme Disease is expected to explode in the next few months. Lyme disease only takes about 15 minutes to be transmitted. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - It's going to be a big summer for ticks and tick borne diseases. "In the U.S., ticks are living longer because of mild winters so the CDC is expecting 300,000 new cases this year of Lyme disease," said Mike Griffiths with Any Lab Test Now. That's why its important to do a full body check if you've been walking around in the woods or tall grass.

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And unlike their weasel-loving brethren, deer ticks, in addition to their namesake host, have a real taste for human flesh. He's using 20 years worth of data—from weather patterns to rodent and deer populations to habitat changes and disease abundance—to make a Lyme disease risk map of Connecticut. "Deer are always heavily parasitized by the deer tick," says Armstrong. At some point along its manifest destiny tour, Ixodes scapularis , the blacklegged, or deer tick, seems to have picked up POW. They found the prevalence of deer antibodies to the POW virus had increased substantially over a 40 year period.

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"She was getting no better at all in fact worse despite the antibiotic and meds and fluids." "Everyone wanted a picture of the bite bc it was definitely not something they had seen before and I think between the pics and telling the same story over and over and about 30 physical exams we both were frustrated," she wrote.


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