Deer Ticks Carry Lyme Disease Germs

Deer Ticks Carry Lyme Disease Germs.
People who go outdoors in several regions of the United States may have something else to nails about. Scientists bang that there's another bothersome root hiding in the deer tick that already harbors the Lyme disease bacterium. There are indications that the embryo infects a few thousand Americans a year, potentially causing flu-like symptoms such as fever hghup.club. In one newly reported case, a lady-in-waiting with existing medical problems appeared to have perceptiveness node and dementia caused by an infection.

It is not clear, however, how sober of a threat may be posed by the germ. For the moment, Lyme contagion appears to be much more prevalent. And four other germs that modify humans lurk in deer ticks. Still, scientists authority the germ is cause for concern.

And "This would not be commonly picked up by any of the popular tests for Lyme disease," said Victor Berardi, co-author of one of two reports about the base in the Jan 17, 2013 stream of the New England Journal of Medicine. The bacterium in quiz is Borrelia miyamotoi and is found on deer ticks (also known as blacklegged ticks) in parts of the fatherland where Lyme disability is prevalent.

In 2011, Russian researchers reported that proletariat there were infected by the bacterium, and the new reports have found that it has infected bourgeoisie in the United States as well. "We've known about this bacterium for a crave time - at least 10 years," said Sam Telford III, a professor of contagious disease at Tufts University in Medford, Mass, who co-authored the information with Berardi.