Ticked The Battle Over Lyme Disease in the South (Audible Audio Edition) Wendy Orent Teresa DeBerry Audible Studios Books
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Ticked The Battle Over Lyme Disease in the South is the second installment of Discover In-Depth, Discover magazine's new longform series. In this deep investigation of the science surrounding Lyme disease, writer Wendy Orent dissects how tick-borne illness is diagnosed in the Southern United States, where the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) do not recognize Lyme - even though thousands of people in the South have reported Lyme-like symptoms and debilitating illness after exposure to ticks. If left untreated, Lyme disease can result in devastating neurological and cardiac complications and difficult-to-treat pain and fatigue. Earlier this year, the CDC announced that Lyme disease was 10 times more prevalent than previously reported, with as many as 300,000 sufferers across the U.S. But while the CDC recognizes the disease in the Northeast and the Mid-Atlantic States, in the Midwest, and even in California and Oregon, the Southern U.S. has been left out of the equation - despite emerging evidence that Lyme or a Lyme-like infection may be present there as well. While patients elsewhere are far more likely to get diagnosed and treated in the early stages of the disease, sufferers of possible tick-borne illnesses in the South are left guessing at what is wrong and how to treat it. The issue is critical not only because of all of the unexplained illnesses in the South, but also because new tick-bore bacteria could be agents of disease nation- and worldwide. Ticked examines the complex ecology of the Southern states, including a host of ticks and spirochetes that some researchers contend may be spreading a Lyme-like disease, if not Lyme itself. The story also dives into the fierce debate now brewing between scientists over how tick-borne illness is transmitted, detected and defined.
Ticked The Battle Over Lyme Disease in the South (Audible Audio Edition) Wendy Orent Teresa DeBerry Audible Studios Books
It was refreshing to read a detailed and apparently well researched almost dissertation on the subject. When a government organization such as the CDC suddenly revises there appraisal of the number of cases of Lyme disease from 30,000 to 300,000 per year, then the likes of this type of investigative reporting is essential to our health. Trust... but VERIFY to keep the powers that be honest.Product details
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Ticked The Battle Over Lyme Disease in the South (Audible Audio Edition) Wendy Orent Teresa DeBerry Audible Studios Books Reviews
This is an excellent book which summarizes well the failure of the Center for Disease Contol to acknowledge the presence of Lyme disease or similar tick borne diseases (erchlicosis or babeosis) in the south. As a result of their refusal to admit that lone star ticks carry these diseases, numerous people have not been given the correct medication for these tick carried diseases, and may suffer long term, chronic problems as a result. It is a well written book, possibly a little too detailed, but it does an excellent job of explaining what caused this failure to realize that tick borne diseases exist in the south.
The authors have wisely expanded the definition of Lyme-type diseases, and the various species and subspecies of ticks that may transmit these incapacitating infectious diseases, to include the American South and Mexico. No doubt, Borrelia-related diseases occur worldwide virtually everywhere suitable ticks can thrive.
If I have an issue with this article, it's with the almost exclusive emphasis on Borrelia. Obviously there are other severe tick-related illnesses that can be confused with it. Probably the "necessary" symptoms of a target rash and erythema migrans don't present in every cases making diagnosis more difficult and confusing. Physicians--and I am one--should treat all unknown infectious-like diseases with antibiotics, whether or not we can prove causation.
This is a sensitive subject with me. I live in the South [Louisiana and Texas] and I've traveled the world over--Southern Africa, Mexico, Argentina, Ethiopia, Russia, Mongolia etc--and have abundant exposure to wild birds, mammals, ticks and other blood-sucking arthropods. Some months after contracting classical cat scratch fever [non-healing primary lesion with necrotizing necrotizing lymphadenitis], I came down with a severe illness characterized by marked malaise, generalized body pain, depression and soaking night sweats. Laboratory tests--lymphocytosis, mild neutropenia, mild anemia--were nonspecific and not particularly helpful. The process went on for months. The night sweats finally subsided but the other symptoms continued virtually unabated for many years. I should note that I NEVER had significant skin lesions during this entire time. No one, including myself, was capable of making a diagnosis. I received no antibiotics. My symptoms, to the extent that I could be objective resembled the syndromes of "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome", "Chronic Fibromyalgia" or "Gulf War Syndrome". Generally speaking, the Medical Community has regarded these as "waste-basket" diagnoses. Generally speaking, the Medical Community is wrong.
I learned that patients with similar symptoms were relatively common in South Africa [a place I've spent plenty of time]. I was finally put in contact with an infectious disease team [The Jadins] out of Johannesburg. Their expertise is tick-bourne diseases, especially rickettsial diseases. They test the patient's serum directly against antigens teased from the gut of infected ticks. I tested positive for African Tick Bite Fever and Q-Fever and was placed on high-dose, pulsed antibiotics for three months.
Were my symptoms due to African Tick Bite Fever and/or Q-Fever? I don't know. I did improve considerably after antibiotic therapy but improvement didn't come quickly and wasn't complete. I still have problems with sciatic pain, neck pain and malaise
My point extends beyond tick-borne disease. Medicine is less perfect than many practitioners would like to believe. No doubt people suffer from a number of chronic infectious diseases that medicine, as yet, is incapable of diagnosing. This is not a criticism of Medicine--Medicing is best thought of as a work in progress--but a criticism of a certain mindset.
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facts and wonderful info, something needs to happen in the medical community to help those that suffer with a illness they say doesn't exist
I like the detail that orent provided, but in some ways the book was not that different than the Discover article.
Well written, a cogent overview.
It was refreshing to read a detailed and apparently well researched almost dissertation on the subject. When a government organization such as the CDC suddenly revises there appraisal of the number of cases of Lyme disease from 30,000 to 300,000 per year, then the likes of this type of investigative reporting is essential to our health. Trust... but VERIFY to keep the powers that be honest.
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