‘Tick pathogens’
Dear Editor:
RE: Tick season has arrived; numbers up last year, April 9.
Tick pathogens are causing long-standing diseases in patients locally. Independent researchers conducted a tick study in Centre Wellington and southern Wellington County, and detected the Lyme disease bacterium (Borrelia burgdorferi), human babesiosis (Babesia odocoilei) and human anaplasmosis (Anaplasma phagocytophilum) in black legged ticks attached to domestic animals.
In total, 96 black legged tick adults were collected by veterinarians and veterinary technicians located at 19 veterinary clinics. Notably, the newest-discovered tick-borne zoonotic pathogen worldwide is Bobesia odocoilei.
This microorganism is an intracellular, red blood cell parasite, and has a notorious reputation for fatigue, sweats and cognitive issues such as dementia. This energy-draining, insidious disease is often labelled by clinicians as multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, POTS, Alzheimer’s disease, depression and more.
The peer-reviewed, scientific article can be downloaded at lymeontario.com.
John Scott,
Fergus