New Paper ROCKS Lyme Disease World And May Help Millions!
New paper ROCKS Lyme disease world and may help millions!
A new study strongly implicates lone star ticks in the transmission of Lyme disease to humans. Incredibly, the research team, headed up by Dr. Kerry Clark, also identified three different Lyme bacterial species (two for the first time in humans!) – Borrelia burgdorferi, Borrelia andersonii, and Borrelia americana – in symptomatic patients living in the South. Some had no travel history. Georgia Lyme Disease Association is proud to have contributed case data and funding through our generous donors in support of this research.
Why this matters so much: Lone star ticks are very aggressive and are the ticks most commonly found biting humans in the South. Years ago, Dr. Ed Masters documented lone star tick vectored Lyme-like disease in patients but his research was shot down as “not Lyme disease.” Although Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) have been documented in the lone star tick, outdated and limited studies surmised that this tick species can’t transmit the bacteria.