GAACK! Black flies are out Wicked!

[Oaktree]

Sounds like a deer tick.

That's the one I send out for testing.

Dumb question, but where would you send a tick to be tested?

 

[DarkBlack]

I don't know how true or correlated all this is but local lore is that early on, the epicenter of Lyme disease in the world was in Old Lyme Connecticut. Old Lyme is just across from Plum Island in Long Island Sound. Plum Island was a US government biological research facility.

 

[Jstpssng]

Dumb question, but where would you send a tick to be tested?

We can send it to the Cooperative Extension. It cost me 20 bucks.

 

[ponytug]

I don't know how true or correlated all this is but local lore is that early on, the epicenter of Lyme disease in the world was in Old Lyme Connecticut. Old Lyme is just across from Plum Island in Long Island Sound. Plum Island was a US government biological research facility.

Nice story, although actually Lyme disease has been found in 5,300 year old mummies; it just took the health professionals a while to work it out. (In the 1970s, due to a cluster of younger arthritic patients in Lyme, CT. The actual organism, Borrellia burgdorferi, wasn't discovered until the 1980s.)

Lyme became a nationally reportable disease in 2012, and has been found in 49 of 50 states, Hawaii remaining Lyme free. It is thought that more than half a million people a year in the US get Lyme disease.

History of Lyme Disease - Bay Area Lyme Foundation

Learn more about the history of Lyme disease, including information on the first reported cases and how our knowledge has evolved over the past few decades.

www.bayarealyme.org

It is worth mentioning again that the tests for the disease are less than accurate, and not everyone gets a "bull's eye" mark, but if you do get a "bull's eye" I would lean in on getting treatment for it.

All the best,

Peter

 

[DarkBlack]

Nice story, although actually Lyme disease has been found in 5,300 year old mummies; it just took the health professionals a while to work it out. (In the 1970s, due to a cluster of younger arthritic patients in Lyme, CT. The actual organism, Borrellia burgdorferi, wasn't discovered until the 1980s.)

Lyme became a nationally reportable disease in 2012, and has been found in 49 of 50 states, Hawaii remaining Lyme free. It is thought that more than half a million people a year in the US get Lyme disease.

History of Lyme Disease - Bay Area Lyme Foundation

Learn more about the history of Lyme disease, including information on the first reported cases and how our knowledge has evolved over the past few decades.

www.bayarealyme.org

It is worth mentioning again that the tests for the disease are less than accurate, and not everyone gets a "bull's eye" mark, but if you do get a "bull's eye" I would lean in on getting treatment for it.

All the best,

Peter

Your’s is also a nice story.
There’s plenty of evidence and testimony of military weaponizing Lyme and testing at the plum island animal disease laboratory during that period of time. Or do you just think it’s coincidence? Just like covid just coincidentally starting down the street from the laboratory working with covid. Just amazing coincidences

Book you can read regarding the subject

Amazon.com

 

[ponytug]

Me, no, I don't think it had anything to do with Plum Island or the research that may or may not have been done there.

Sure, sunspot rates, hemlines and the stock market gains or losses all correlate, but that doesn't make it a causal relationship. I enjoy fiction reading, just not when it comes to data, but that's me.

There is far too much evidence in the archaeological record for widespread prehistoric prevalence of Borrellia burgdorfori. I will stick to things that have causal relationships, unlike say miasma theories.


All the best,

Peter

 

[DarkBlack]

Logically, the “discovery “ of what is believed to be proof of a bacteria from 5,000 years ago, certainly doesn’t disprove our military experiments with weaponizing and modifying it.

Again, there’s documented statements of it happening.

 

[DarkBlack]

This book review does a decent job of summarizing the major highlights of the book:

Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons - TheHumanist.com

BY KRIS NEWBY HARPER WAVE, 2019 336 PP.; $28.99 Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons by Kris Newby adds significantly to our understanding of Lyme disease, while oddly seeming to avoid mention of what we already knew. Newby claims that if a scientist named Willy...

thehumanist.com