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  • Becky Smith
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    I Got bit by a tick in Bellingham, WA. I'm in treatment for late stage Lyme Disease today. Wake up people, it is everywhere!

  • Elaine Finn
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    Wrote a Lyme disease brochure with the help of 2 Lyme disease specialists. Will email to anyone interested. Also did a video a few years back with lots of good info.Lyme disease brochure God bless, Elaine

  • debbie the pet lady
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    why didnt you tell us more about this lyme diesese if it will kill or what !!!i got bit by three ticks so far and now i am getting very scared cause i got many deer where i live as well as woods ,so how do we no if we got this dam diesese !!! yes ticks come out in warm weather and stop blaming the deer for this crap you people get rid of our deer the ticks will really come to get man !!

  • Michael Parent
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    Lyme Disease is deadly. The science is far from settled and poorly understood, because when you have a vector like the tick, which carries a soup of infectious diseases, Lyme is the least of your worries. You can get 3-5 or more infections at one time: Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Ehrlichiosis, Anaplasmosis, Bartonella, Babesia, Tularemia, and a variety of nematodes, and viral infections. The list is long – about 15 different illnesses. Some of them can kill you in less than a day, and you can acquire them within 30 mins of the tick biting you, which you may never even see coming.

    So when you talk about Lyme Disease, you can't really talk about it in a vacuum from tick-born illness in general.

    Lyme Disease is very serious if not diagnosed, and based on the research the CDC and IDSA are not correct. Lyme Disease patients should always be considered as potentially having acquired more than one infection, especially if they remain ill and the doctors keep saying "You're fine." That makes no sense given what we know about tick born infection.

    Plenty of evidence demonstrates that persistence of the infection with standard antibiotics is happening. It's likely happening in immunocompromised patients or patients who already have auto-immune like dysfunction. Genetics and other factors increase or decrease the risks – but the infection is the smoking gun and the immune systems response to it does all the damage to the host – much like an auto-immune disease.

    Lyme Disease is a pandemic, but the only people who seem to know that are all the patients scattered around the world who were bitten in their own local – including Australia, France, Germany, Italy, most of the northern and east Africa, and South Africa, as well as Canada, Norway, Russia, India, China, and Japan.

    It's not going a way while scientists duke it out over the most trivial of facts.