I still prefer rattlesnakes and Gila Monsters!!!!!! You can see them, and
you hear them rattle and hiss.
Mis dos centavos.
de Milt, N5IA
-----Original Message-----
From: John Harden, D.M.D.
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 2:37 PM
To: topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: Lyme Desease
It is named for the Connecticut town where in the mid-1970's there was
an epidemic of arthritis associated with skin erythema (redness), caused
by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. A spirochete causes syphillis.
It is transmitted from rodents to people by tiny, hard deer ticks. */It
is the major insect-borne disease in the USA./*
Like syphillis it has 3 stages:
1) An expanded area of redness with a necrotic center at the site of the
tick bite.
2) Early spread via the blood system...
a) secondary skin lesions
b) "moving around" joint & muscle pain
c) heart rhythm disturbances
d) meningitis (inflammation of the lining of the brain)...
3) Two or three years later one sees a chronic arthritis and sometimes
severe joint damage. There can be an encephalitis (brain
inflammation).... which can be
mild to debilitating...
THIS IS A BACTERIAL INFECTION.. The damage is thought to be due to
antibodies to the bacterial proteins that attack host tissues...
All in all... Not good!!
73, John, W4NU
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