New CDC report shows reports of Lyme disease by county - Polidicks

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/xmiBpxK.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]If you don’t live in the northeastern United States, you may not think much about diseases transmitted by ticks. If you do live there, or spend part of the summer along the coastal arc that stretches from Virginia and Maryland up through southern Maine, consciousness of these sneaky, potentially disabling illnesses—Lyme disease and its lesser-known brethren, including erlichiosis, anaplasmosis, babesiosis and the rest—is hard to escape. That very regionalized awareness occurs both because Lyme can be a dreadful illness, causing arthritis and neurological problems years after the tick bite that transmitted it, and also because Lyme is oddly geographically limited. It is named for the town where cases in kids were first identified and linked, Lyme, Conn., and still is most likely to occur in New England and nearby states.[/QUOTE] [editline]27th July 2015[/editline] [url]http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/20/map-lyme/[/url]

Yeah well, maybe if we still had a vaccine for it, this wouldn't be a problem hmm?

[QUOTE=draugur;48307419]Yeah well, maybe if we still had a vaccine for it, this wouldn't be a problem hmm?[/QUOTE] i really wish that the FDA would take another look at it because this entire map is just completely unnecessary. fucking uneducated moral panic

I don't even remember hearing about lyme disease in my state.

Living in northwest Vermont, I am terrified of ticks I had one that got in my eye brow, I never saw him until he started feeding. Imagine waking up one morning and going to itch your face when you feel something big and hard, which is a fucking insect sucking your blood that could fuck you up with disease for awhile no also I never realized that this shit was mostly in the northeast

[QUOTE=Glitchman;48307688]also I never realized that this shit was mostly in the northeast[/QUOTE] Yeah I wouldn't have expected that. I wish Colorado would share its great wisdom.

like 28% of ticks potentially has lyme i have ticks about 5-10 times a year and if you check yourself after a hike through tall grass or bushes every evening and take them out [I]the proper way[/I] - there's no reason to be afraid ~at all~ the only time they'll infect you with the disease (mostly) is when you irritate them - be it with scratching them off, applying soap heat or alcohol etc, taking them off the wrong way. it'll cause them to puke their stomach contents back into you which contains your blood and their diseases

I live in the splotch of Virginia that has all the fucking ticks. When I go on vacation I'm still in the tick zone. Save me

I'm surprised there haven't been any cases in south mississippi, I had about 30 ticks last year from my local MTB trail and city park (but was able to remove them in time), and my dad actually did get lyme disease at one point. Maybe it's just underreported in my area

Got Lyme last month. It went untreated for 3 weeks (didn't know what it was, thought I was just fatigued) until my heart suddenly started going off-beat and I got covered in rashes. Shitty disease infected my heart and I was damn near death's door when it went three times slower than normal Point being, watch the fuck out for ticks. Wear long pants and use heavy duty bug spray if you go walking in the woods or even long grass, and always check yourself afterwards to be safe

This disease needs as much recognition as it can get. It's so debilitating and I'm genuinely baffled at how doctors treat it like it's not a big deal.

I have multiple ticks every year here, already had like five this year. They are pretty annoying.

I've been infected once and I've never actually found the tick (and never felt it or seen it), only found the bite itself some time, the strange spot it makes. The fun thing is, no doctors here actually recognized it as Lyme's disease, so I did blood tests at a fancy lab myself to confirm it, cured it, and all is fine.

What is even the deal with Lyme disease? Like what is it and why do Doctors and the government refuse to recognise it? There's like a kinda big movement here to have the disease recognised but it's really fucking weird because it's being spearheaded by current affairs programs and tabloids, so it implies to me that something isn't quite right. What's the go?

[QUOTE=Antdawg;48308849]What is even the deal with Lyme disease? Like what is it and why do Doctors and the government refuse to recognise it? There's like a kinda big movement here to have the disease recognised but it's really fucking weird because it's being spearheaded by current affairs programs and tabloids, so it implies to me that something isn't quite right. What's the go?[/QUOTE] There's Lyme disease; a well known and treatable ailment that doctors will happy help you with and is quite common in a lot of places. And then there's Chronic Lyme; something you learn about from your Chiropractor after he tells you not to vaccinate your kids, dog, cat, or goldfish and adjusts your newborn's spine.

[QUOTE=Antdawg;48308849]What is even the deal with Lyme disease? Like what is it and why do Doctors and the government refuse to recognise it? There's like a kinda big movement here to have the disease recognised but it's really fucking weird because it's being spearheaded by current affairs programs and tabloids, so it implies to me that something isn't quite right. What's the go?[/QUOTE] Conspiracy theorists say it was created by the government on Plum Island by Nazi scientests the US had taken after WWII in an effort to create biological weapons to use against the Soviets (Plum Island isn't far from Lyme CT). I don't put much stock in that theory; but Lyme sucks. My mom has it, my dog has it (along with anaplasmosis) and my brother has it. It never goes away; you have it for life. It's a terrible thing.

[QUOTE=bdd458;48308952]Conspiracy theorists say it was created by the government on Plum Island by Nazi scientests the US had taken after WWII in an effort to create biological weapons to use against the Soviets (Plum Island isn't far from Lyme CT). I don't put much stock in that theory; but Lyne sucks. My mom has it, my dog has it (along with anaplasmosis) and my brother has it. It never goes away; you have it for life. It's a terrible thing.[/QUOTE] Only late-stage Lyme is incurable. If you catch it within a reasonable amount of time (week/s), antibiotics clear it right up. Sorry to hear about that though. My aunt had it and I can tell you it's not fun. I hope your family is managing theirs well.

Yeah, they manage. It's the price you pay for living in the middle of the woods.

Ive picked several ticks off me this year. Fortunately most around here are big enoug to notice easily. It sucks wanting to hike and be outside often but also wanting to avoid these sorts of bugs

I've had it a number of times. Everything from a giant target-logo esque mark on my thigh to fucking having half my face paralyzed (and our friend the target logo came back only to cover my mouth/jaw/non-existent mustache). Not fun, particularly that latter bit when you're trying to drink literally anything. Basically had to drink from the sink because all the goddamn water from my cup would end up on my lap.

Living here in Minnesota I got Lyme disease from a deer tick after playing airsoft. Luckily we caught it early thanks to the bullseye mark and all I had to do was take horse pills that made me feel like shit and piss orange.

Kinda strange on how nebraska doesnt have a bunch of cases. Considering we live in a place where there is a lot of.......grass...

I really hope it doesn't reach Canada.

My cousin came down with Lyme just a few months ago but has no idea where he would have gotten it from. Apparently the county we live in outside Kansas City has a low risk of infection, so it would be the most unlucky thing to have happened to him if he was the one person in the whole area to be infected by a tick here

I found a tick embedded in me once a while back but I thought at first it was some weird boil. Accidentally broke it in half with the anterior segment still stuck in my skin. My mom put me on antibiotics real fast.