Topband: Lyme Desease

[Milt -- N5IA]

I still prefer rattlesnakes and Gila Monsters!!!!!!  You can see them, and 
you hear them rattle and hiss.

Mis dos centavos.

de Milt, N5IA


-----Original Message----- 
From: John Harden, D.M.D.
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 2:37 PM
To: topband at contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: Lyme Desease

It is named for the Connecticut town where in the mid-1970's there was
an epidemic of arthritis associated with skin erythema (redness), caused
by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. A spirochete causes syphillis.

It is transmitted  from rodents to people by tiny, hard deer ticks. */It
is the major insect-borne disease in the USA./*

Like syphillis it has 3 stages:

1) An expanded area of redness with a necrotic center at the site of the
tick bite.

2) Early spread via the blood system...

      a) secondary skin lesions

      b) "moving around" joint & muscle pain

      c) heart rhythm disturbances

      d) meningitis (inflammation of the lining of the brain)...

3) Two or three years later one sees a chronic arthritis and sometimes
severe joint damage. There can be an encephalitis (brain
inflammation).... which can be
      mild to debilitating...

THIS IS A BACTERIAL INFECTION.. The damage is thought to be due to
antibodies to the bacterial proteins that attack host tissues...

All in all... Not good!!

73, John, W4NU