Lyme Disease and ticks
I was on the UNH Agricultural Extension page yesterday, reading more about ticks. Seems NH has the second highest count of Lyme disease in the US, second only to Delaware. I would have thought Connecticut. Anyway, the black-legged tick that carries Lyme disease also can infect humans with two other pathogens: babesiosis and anaplasmosis. Babesiosis is a malaria like parasitic disease that gives you diarrea, fever, chills, etc. Anaplasmosis gives you fever, chills, muscle aches. I don't think these two infections give the long-term problems that Lyme disease can give if untreated. My particular issue is that all these nasty things are treated with antibiotics. Any I am allergic to most all antibiotics and sulpha drugs.... so the thought of tick bite is fairly scary!! Be careful out there!!
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