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More fun for California!

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Apr 13, 2023 at 5:40 pm #3778852

BlackHatGuy
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@sleeping
Locale: The Cascades

After decades of lurking, an elusive bacterium finally strikes in California

California man is first to have a confirmed B. miyamotoi infection in western US.

“A California man is the first person in the Western US to have a confirmed infection with a curious bacterium that has lurked in the region for over two decades—and researchers fear the pathogen may finally be emerging there.

The bacterium is Borrelia miyamotoi, a corkscrew-shaped spirochete that is spread by black-legged ticks and causes a rare disease called hard tick relapsing fever.”

Apr 13, 2023 at 6:21 pm #3778864

John S.
BPL Member

@jshann

Here is a good pubmed article on tick borne relapsing fever.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8887751/

Apr 13, 2023 at 6:44 pm #3778865

baja bob
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@bajabob
Locale: West

Sounds pleasant. 30 seconds to become infected. Up to 12 fever episodes with up to a 10 day break in between.

Apr 16, 2023 at 7:20 pm #3779086

obx hiker
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@obxer

insect shield

What are we up to now, about a dozen threatening diseases? And you can possibly get more than one from the same tick bite

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