The tick virus far deadlier than LYME

[MindWars]

WASHINGTON – The Centers for Disease Control is warning of the emergence of a far deadlier tick-related virus than Lyme Disease – one that kills 10 percent of those infected and permanently disables the other 50 percent.




Read more at POW! New killer disease permanently disables half of victims


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So this is worse than lyme disease, isn't that lovely. From what I have seen lyme disease is extremely difficult to detect.
Many symptoms take place often before a Dr. nails it down . They think these symptoms are everything but lyme.

 

[DrainBamage]

Uh oh, a new disease to fear. Surely this belongs on the MindWars Doom-Tracker (tm):

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27. New tick virus worse than lyme

 

[MindWars]

Uh oh, a new disease to fear. Surely this belongs on the MindWars Doom-Tracker (tm):

1. Flu pandemic
2. Financial collapse
3. War with Korea
4. Artificial intelligence run amok
5. Mass extinctions
6. Heavily armed Muslims in the US
7. Russian Bombers
8. Wild fires out of control with some secret reason they started
9. Nuclear war wipes out everyone
10. Massive power outage with boilerplate FEMA reference
11. FEMA Operation Gotham false flag
12. Cell phones causing brain cancer
13. Coronal hole from giant fissure on the sun
14. Popocatépetl volcano
15. Facial recognition not really for illegals
16. Cyber attack on power grid
17. Nuclear missile hitting California
18. Deadly fungus "catastrophic threat" to US
19. Global debt explosion
20. American debt bomb
21. Scientists warn of apocalypse
22. Europe taken over by Islam
23. Earthquakes off Alaska
24. 1984 style censorship
25. Anonymous says prepare for World War 3
26. EMP Strike on USA
27. New tick virus worse than lyme

 

[Fueri]

I figured I'd chime in on this, as I've seen reference to this illness on other sites as well.

I go fishing in Ontario annually on a guy's only trip where we are slogging through the woods dragging gear to offroad lakes daily, and we do family outings to upper, upper Minnesota annually as well. Both of these places, obviously, are havens for ticks and mosquitos.

A lot of people, obviously, know to bring mosquito repellent. I use this stuff when I'm in the deep stuff and it is extremely effective.

Amazon.com : Repel 100 Insect Repellent, 4 oz. Pump Spray, Single Bottle : Insect Repelling Products : Patio, Lawn & Garden

downside is that it is 98% DEET, so I wouldn't spray this on regularly or on kids. but it works when you know you are going to be dealing with severe conditions.


What a lot of people do not use is Permethrin to treat their clothes.

Amazon.com : Repel 100 Insect Repellent, 4 oz. Pump Spray, Single Bottle : Insect Repelling Products : Patio, Lawn & Garden

Permethrin was developed by the US military and it is not a repellent per se, but it kills mosquitos and ticks when they are exposed to it. Follow very basic instructions to spray down your clothing, (Socks, shoes and pants especially, as this is often where ticks hitch a ride), use common sense in terms of tucking in your pant legs when in the brush or woods or whatever and this stuff is very effective. It holds up for a few washes, or if you get rained on or whatever, is also supposedly totally safe.

I know people that camp and they treat their tents and other gear with it as well. When we're hauling backpacks and other crap through the woods we do the same. Basically, anything the little bastards have to crawl across to get to you, or are likely to hitch a ride on, spray down to create a barrier and kill the little bastards.

Wear shirts and pants with tight fitting cuffs or tuck your pants into your socks. tuck your shirt in, etc. Wear a tight fitting undershirt or long sleeve shirt with good tight cuffs treated with this stuff. Basically what you're trying to do is shut down vectors for them to get to your skin and latch on. Treat your clothes with this stuff (or there are services you can send them out to) and this kills them before they can find a place to latch onto your skin.

I use this and insect repellent on exposed areas and haven't found a tick on myself in years; and I am in the deep stuff every year, and in the woods near my home regularly etc.

 

[badger2]

The map is faulty and does not show an historical image. The story is also misleading, for the first victim was a 5-year-old with a (by default) compromised immune system development. The time course of 6 days is the same as that of the deadly Woodburn, Montana strain of Rocky MOuntain Spotted Fever:

'No. 94. Powassan Virus (Strain Byers)

Original source: Isolated by Donald M. Mclean, M.D., reported on 8 Dec 1965, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.

Genus and species: human

Age or stage: 5 yrs.

Organs and tissues: brain

Signs and symptom: typical acute encephalitis, 6 dqays between onset and death; headache, fever, twitching,drowsiness, spastic hemiplegia, CSF 150 cells, 60 % lymphocytes.

Time of Collection: 23 Sept 1958

Method of collection: portions of left cerebral hemisphere, basal ganglia and cerebellum removed aseptically at autopsy.

Place collected: residence: Powassan, Ontario, Canada

Macrohabitat: farm about 5 miles west of powassan; cultivated patches alternating with rocky terrain forested by mixed spruce and deciduous trees.

(to be continued)

 

[badger2]

We are excerpting from Catalogue of Arthropod-Borne Viruses of the World, continued

'Tests used: did not survive long enough to obtain convalescent serum. Typical neurophagia, glial knots and perivascular cuffing with lymphocytes seen in sections of human brain.

Properties of virus: 40-45 micr. envelope present. cubic symmetry.

Powassan, Ontario, Canada: red sqirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus), Ixodes marxi ticks woodchuck (Marmota monax); porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum) foxes and racoons (upstate New York) Ixodes cookei ticks.

Deer mice (Peromyscus sp.), Black Hills, S. D.

Field mice (Microtus sp.), Black Hills, S.D.

Chipmunks (Eutamias sp.), Black Hills, S.D.

Ixodes spinipalpus and Dermacentor andersoni ticks, Black Hills, S.D.

Dermacentor andersoni ticks, Weld County, Colorado

Tissue cultures: continuous line monkey LLC 8 cells, freshly trypsinized; Evidence of infection: rounding. cytoplasmic vacuolation.'

The cytoplasmic vacuolation is the Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever counterpart for the same affect due to the rickettsiae.

 

[waltky]

Japanese woman dies from tick disease caught from infected cat...

Woman dies from tick disease caught from infected cat
Tue, 25 Jul 2017 - The Japanese case is thought to be the first time the illness was transmitted by an infected mammal.

A Japanese woman has died of a tick-borne disease caught from a cat, in what is thought to be the first such mammal to human transmission. Japan's health ministry said the woman in her 50s had been helping a weakening stray cat when she was bitten. Ten days later, she died of Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (SFTS), which is carried by ticks.

Cute - but potentially carrying a deadly virus?​

With no tick bite detected, doctors assume the illness must have been contracted via the infected cat. Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (SFTS) is an relatively new infectious disease emerging in China, Korea and Japan. The virus is said to have fatally rates between of up to 30% and is especially severe in people over 50.

According to Japanese media, SFTS first occurred in the country in 2013. Japan's health ministry said the recent death was still a rare case but warned people to be careful when in contact with animals in poor physical condition. Globally, tick bites are widely associated with transmitting Lyme disease which can lead to severe illness and death if left untreated.

Woman dies from tick disease caught from infected cat - BBC News

See also:

What diseases can we catch from our pets?
Following the announcement that two people in England have been infected with tuberculosis by their cat, public health experts were quick to offer reassurance.

The risk of transmission was "very low" and the presence of the infection in cats was "uncommon", they said. In fact, humans get many of the same diseases as our pets and often people and animals can be infected from the same source. Here we look at some of the main diseases that can be caught from our pets - and the risks involved.

Cats

The most common infection from cats is Cat Scratch Disease, which is caused by the Bartonella bacterium. People usually become infected after being scratched or bitten by a cat and experience swelling around the site of the scratch, and fatigue. It cannot be transmitted between people. Cats are also the main carriers of the tiny T. gondii parasite that causes toxoplasmosis, but it's also found in dogs, sheep and cattle. The parasite is often found in the faeces of infected cats. You may not know whether your cat is infected or not because cats don't usually show any symptoms.

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If the parasite gets into the environment or food chain, it can be ingested by humans. The greatest risk is to pregnant women, who could pass the infection on to their unborn baby, potentially causing brain damage and blindness, but severe congenital toxoplasmosis is rare - three in every 100,000 babies are born with the condition in the UK. Up to a third of the UK population will acquire a toxoplasmosis infection at some point in their life but most people won't notice any symptoms. If symptoms do appear, they will be similar to flu or glandular fever.

Dogs

Ticks can give both dogs and humans Lyme disease, but it is no more likely that a tick would transfer from pet to person than from human to hound. The most common symptom is a red rash around the tick bite. Flu-like symptoms follow but if left untreated, Lyme disease can cause the joints to swell and lead to neurological problems. Ticks that cause Lyme disease are commonly found in woodland and heath areas where dogs and their owners could be walking. Rabies occurs mostly in dogs (and also in bats) but there is no risk to the general public in the UK from rabies in dogs.

Only four cases of human rabies from dogs have been identified in this country since 2000 - all of which were acquired from dogs abroad. Rabies, a very serious viral infection, is usually transmitted through saliva from the bite of an infected dog. It causes a high fever and aggressive behaviour but it can also spread to the brain and nervous system, and can be fatal. Developing countries, particularly in South and South East Asia, see most of the 55,000 deaths from human rabies in the world each year.

Parrots

Psittacosis is a bacterial infection that affects birds, particularly parrots. It can also affect other exotic species such as budgies, cockatiels and macaws as well as ducks, gulls, sparrows and hens. It is an airborne disease that can be passed to people who own or work with exotic birds. It causes a high fever, diarrhoea, eye infection and bright red spots - but there are few cases in the UK. Check where that colourful parrot comes from before you take it home.

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