There IS Lyme Disease in Florida!

My doctor said he knows nothing about Lyme disease.

He said there is no Lyme disease in Florida.

WRONG!

Multiple Florida studies have proven many species of animals (wildlife) are infected with Lyme and various tick borne diseases. The ticks and other vectors are carrying these diseases, and infected humans and pets are being found after exposure in Florida, not out-of-state as once thought.

A major problem in the south is that some of the known strains of Lyme disease (Borrelia) are not detected by the standard Lyme tests, so Lyme disease is being missed at an alarming rate. Even when Lyme tests do detect exposure (Borrelia burgdorferi) patients are given inaccurate information leading to a misdiagnosis and improper treatment.

Borrelia [Lyme] Strains in Florida

Borrelia americana

Borrelia andersonii

Borrelia bissettii

Borrelia burgdorferi*

Borrelia garinii

Borrelia lonestari

Borrelia turicatae

Unnamed- (divergent strain clustered between Borrelia bissettii & Borrelia carolinensis)

*Standard lab tests are only designed to detect exposure to Borrelia burgdorferi.

Tick Borne Diseases in Florida

HGA- human granulocytic anaplasmosis

HGE- human monocytic ehrlichiosis

Babesia microti

Brucellosis

Heartland Virus

Histoplasmosis

Rickettsia rickettsia

Rickettsia parkeri

Rickettsia amblyommii

Rickettsia bellii

Rickettsia montanensis

Rickettsia cooleyi-like sp.

Rickettsia sp. Is-1

Rickettsia TR39-like sp.

Tacaribe virus (Arenaviridae)

Toxoplasmosis

Additional Tick & Vector Borne Diseases in Florida

Avian influenza

Bovine anaplasmosis

Bovine babesiosis

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy

Benign bovine theileriosis

Cattle Fever Tick

Chikungunya fever

Chronic Wasting Disease

Classical Swine Fever

Contagious equine metritis

Dengue fever

EHV-1

Ehrlichia canis

Equine herpesvirus

Equine infectious anemia

Equine piroplasmosis

Equine viral arteritis

Foot and Mouth Disease

Hantavirus

Johnes

Leptospirosis

Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus (LCMV)

Malaria

New World Screwworm

Piroplasmosis

Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus

Pseudorabies

Rabies

Rat Bite Fever

Rift Valley Fever

Salmonellosis

Schmallenberg Virus

Scrapie

Spring viremia carp

St. Louis Encephalitis

Swine Influenza

Tuberculosis

Vesicular stomatitis

West Nile Virus

Yellow fever

Diagnosing, Symptoms and Treatment Information

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Deer Ticks (Black legged ticks) Harbor 91 Different Pathogens

Another good reason not to wait and immediately

"TREAT THE BITE".

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Parasit Vectors. 2016 May 5;9(1):265. doi: 10.1186/s13071-016-1529-y.

Human pathogens associated with the blacklegged tick Ixodes scapularis: a systematic review.

Nelder MP1, Russell CB2, Sheehan NJ2, Sander B2,3,4, Moore S2, Li Y5, Johnson S5, Patel SN6,7, Sider D2,8.

Author information

• 1Enteric, Zoonotic and Vector-borne Diseases; Communicable Diseases, Emergency Preparedness and Response; Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. mark.nelder@oahpp.ca.
• 2Enteric, Zoonotic and Vector-borne Diseases; Communicable Diseases, Emergency Preparedness and Response; Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• 3Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• 4Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• 5Analytic Services, Knowledge Services, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• 6Public Health Ontario Laboratories, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• 7Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• 8Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.

Abstract

BACKGROUND:

The blacklegged tick Ixodes scapularis transmits Borrelia burgdorferi (sensu stricto) in eastern North America; however, the agent of Lyme disease is not the sole pathogen harbored by the blacklegged tick.

The blacklegged tick is expanding its range into areas of southern Canada such as Ontario, an area where exposure to blacklegged tick bites and tick-borne pathogens is increasing. We performed a systematic review to evaluate the public health risks posed by expanding blacklegged tick populations and their associated pathogens.

METHODS:

We followed PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines for conducting our systematic review.

We searched Ovid MEDLINE, Embase, BIOSIS, Scopus and Environment Complete databases for studies published from 2000 through 2015, using subject headings and keywords that included "Ixodes scapularis", "Rickettsia", "Borrelia", "Anaplasma", "Babesia" and "pathogen."

Two reviewers screened titles and abstracts against eligibility criteria (i.e. studies that included field-collected blacklegged ticks and studies that did not focus solely on B. burgdorferi) and performed quality assessments on eligible studies.

RESULTS:

Seventy-eight studies were included in the final review, 72 were from the US and eight were from Canada (two studies included blacklegged ticks from both countries). Sixty-four (82 %) studies met ≥ 75 % of the quality assessment criteria.

Blacklegged ticks harbored 91 distinct taxa, 16 of these are tick-transmitted human pathogens, including species of Anaplasma, Babesia, Bartonella, Borrelia, Ehrlichia, Rickettsia, Theileria and Flavivirus.

Organism richness was highest in the Northeast (Connecticut, New York) and Upper Midwest US (Wisconsin); however, organism richness was dependent on sampling effort.

The primary tick-borne pathogens of public health concern in Ontario, due to the geographic proximity or historical detection in Ontario, are Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Babesia microti, B. burgdorferi, Borrelia miyamotoi, deer tick virus and Ehrlichia muris-like sp.

Aside from B. burgdorferi and to a much lesser concern A. phagocytophilum, these pathogens are not immediate concerns to public health in Ontario; rather they represent future threats as the distribution of vectors and pathogens continue to proliferate.

CONCLUSIONS:

Our review is the first systematic assessment of the literature on the human pathogens associated with the blacklegged tick. As Lyme disease awareness continues to increase, it is an opportune time to document the full spectrum of human pathogens transmittable by blacklegged ticks.

KEYWORDS:

Bacteria; Blacklegged ticks; Infectious disease; Ixodes; Parasites; Pathogens; Public health; Symbionts; Vector-borne; Viruses; Zoonoses

PMID:

27151067

[PubMed - in process]

Link- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27151067