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 go about. Scientists account that there's another difficult start hiding in the deer tick that already harbors the Lyme disorder bacterium. There are indications that the rudiment infects a few thousand Americans a year, potentially causing flu-like symptoms such as fever muscle. In one newly reported case, a dame with existing medical problems appeared to have wit tumescence and dementia caused by an infection.

It is not clear, however, how dour of a menace may be posed by the germ. For the moment, Lyme blight appears to be much more prevalent. And four other germs that pretend humans prowl in deer ticks vigrx box. Still, scientists chance the bacterium is cause for concern.

And "This would not be commonly picked up by any of the au courant tests for Lyme disease," said Victor Berardi, co-author of one of two reports about the source in the Jan 17, 2013 emanate of the New England Journal of Medicine. The bacterium in issue is Borrelia miyamotoi and is found on deer ticks (also known as blacklegged ticks) in parts of the mother country where Lyme c murrain is prevalent.

In 2011, Russian researchers reported that men and women there were infected by the bacterium, and the altered reports have found that it has infected colonize in the United States as well. "We've known about this bacterium for a hanker metre - at least 10 years," said Sam Telford III, a professor of contagious plague at Tufts University in Medford, Mass, who co-authored the story with Berardi.