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Babesia: Common Lyme Disease Co-infection
Babeisiosis, or infection with the protozoan Babesia, has been around for hundreds of years in wild and domestic animals such as cattle, horses, and sheep. But it wasn’t identified in humans until the 1960’s. Babesia lives in many of the same animals as the Lyme disease bacteria, Borrelia. The same tick species that transmit Lyme [...]
Continue reading...How Lyme Disease Affects the Immune System
September 8, 2010
Lyme disease is like no other bacterial infection. With most bacterial infections, you expect to take an antibiotic and be over the infection within a week to 10 days. Despite treatment, however, many people with Lyme disease often end up with more serious, widespread infection. Borrelia burgdorferi: An odd bacterium The Borrelia burgdorferi spirochete causes [...]
Continue reading...Bartonella Can Be Transmitted in Utero
May 6, 2010
Press Release from North Carolina State University: North Carolina State University clinical researcher Dr. Ed Breitschwerdt has found blood and tissue evidence of Bartonella in twins born to parents with chronic headaches, memory loss, shortness of breath, muscle weakness, and fatigue. One twin, now 10, has been chronically ill since birth. His sister died at [...]
Continue reading...Getting Lyme
February 5, 2009
Don’t let the name fool you. Whether it’s Lyme, Lime Disease, or Lymes Disease, this infectious disease is nothing to sneeze (or scratch) at. Several Ixodes species of ticks are known to carry the Lyme bacteria in the U.S., mostly in the Northeast, Midwest, and Northwest, and all over Canada. An infected tick is called [...]
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October 4, 2010
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