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Lyme Disease

Lyme Disease. What is Lyme Disease?. Also known as borreliosis Caused by Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria Bacteria live in the host which is a tick. How it is transmitted. Tick bites a human or deer for a meal and the bacteria is transmitted to the person or deer. Host.

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Lyme Disease

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  1. Lyme Disease

  2. What is Lyme Disease? • Also known as borreliosis • Caused by Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria • Bacteria live in the host which is a tick

  3. How it is transmitted • Tick bites a human or deer for a meal and the bacteria is transmitted to the person or deer.

  4. Host

  5. Signs and Symptoms in Humans • Expanding Rash • Appears either as a solid red expanding rash or blotch, OR a central spot surrounded by clear skin that is in turn ringed by an expanding red rash (looks like a bull's-eye)

  6. Symptoms Beginning Symptoms: • Solid red or bull's-eye rash, usually at site of bite • Swelling of lymph glands near tick bite • Generalized achiness • Headache

  7. Symptoms Early Disseminated Stage: • Two or more rashes not at site of bite • Migrating pains in joints/tendons • Headache • Stiff, aching neck • Facial palsy (facial paralysis similar to Bell's palsy) • Tingling or numbness in extremities • Multiple enlarged lymph glands • Abnormal pulse • Sore throat • Changes in vision • Fever of 100 to 102 F • Severe fatigue

  8. Symptoms Late Stage: • Arthritis (pain/swelling) of one or two large joints • Disabling neurological disorders (disorientation; confusion; dizziness; short-term memory loss; inability to concentrate, finish sentences or follow conversations; mental "fog") • Numbness in arms/hands or legs/feet

  9. Treatment • Antibiotics –Doxycycline, amoxicillin and ceftin - four week treatment if found in early stages • intravenous (IV) treatment and oral antibiotics - 4-6 weeks, late stages

  10. Deer • Deer may carry Lyme Disease but are not affected • Humans, Dogs and Cats can be adversely affected by the disease

  11. Birds • Carrier of Borrelia burgdorferi • Ticks that do not have the bacteria can transmitted from a host bird • Birds that do not have if can transmitted from feeding tick • Birds are not affected by the bacterium • The bacterium is spreading to new places because birds are migrating with feeding ticks, when they finish feeding they drop up in a new place possible miles away from where they attached to host.

  12. Common Ticks Deer ticks and two other common tick species - dog ticks and Lone Star ticks (neither of which is known to transmit Lyme disease)

  13. Where

  14. Risk Across the United States

  15. References American Lyme Disease Foundation • http://www.aldf.com/lyme.shtml#treatment Google Images • http://myhealth.ucsd.edu/library/healthguide/en-us/images/media/medical/Multum/ceftin500mg.jpg • http://fgghjghj.5khost.com/2804.jpg • http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Doxycycline_100mg_capsules.jpg

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