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The following websites were gratefully used in compiling the lists below.
For more direct information as to the signs and symptoms, please contact these websites, and/or your physician.
www.cdc.gov • www.mayoclinic.org

The following coinfections may be found along with a Lyme infection. The tick is a dirty little being who swallows up and delivers whatever disease it happens upon, and then spits it into the body of the unwitting victim.

We have found that these coinfections often compromise the patient’s recovery, as antibiotics are often not the remedy. There are parasites (like Malaria/Babesia) which warrant such drugs as Mepron, mycoplasms, for which no known remedy is available, a variety of viruses, only a few of which succumb to antivirals, and no known vaccines available for ANY of the coinfections. The most common coinfections in the Gettysburg area appear to be Ehrlichiosis, Bartonella, and Babesiosis. However, most of these are not dealt with promptly, and therefore recovery is limited and often impeded for the victims.

From the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website, and its National Center for Infectious Diseases, when you type “LYME” in the search area, the following diseases are listed merely as a “partial list” of possible coinfections:
See www.cdc.gov/ticks/diseases, which list was reviewed by our site on August 8, 2006. We thank the CDC for this list, and advise any interested parties to go to their website for further information.

1. Babesiosis [Babesia/Malaria]: This is a parasite which eats one’s red blood cells. Antibiotics alone will do no good against this invader. Most patients are given a yellow, paint-like substance called “Mepron” plus an antibiotic to deal with this menace. This is deadly. Some doctors believe one month is enough, but others have to take this medication for years before their disease is under control.



2. Crimean-Congo Hemorrahagic Fever: According to the CDC, the Ebola virus is communicable by vectors to humans. In our world-wide community, this is the scariest of those we’ve seen.



3. Ehrlichiosis: There are 2 types of Ehrlichias, and also another called anaplasmosis. These are treated with antibiotics, usually doxycycline for those over 13. Under 13, the use of amoxicillin is often used. The way we explain this coinfection is that it is Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever without the spots! It can cause meningitis symptoms, and go immediately to the CNS and cause encephalitis. It is also fatal if not promptly and properly treated.



4. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: Many of you have heard of this disease, which is making a comeback. This one is obvious, and even the dullest medical practitioner might be able to diagnosis this! It is also treated with antibiotics.



5. SouthernTick-Associated Rash Illness [STARI]: Not sure why the south needs its own version of Lyme disease, but that is exactly what this is!



6. Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever: This is difficult to test for, and to treat. Just as there are no “gold standard” tests for Lyme, there are none for most of these diseases. This is treated with antibiotics, but it is unclear whether it has bacterial or viral components.



7. Tick Typhus: Now we have Typhoid Fever in a tick!!



8. Arthopod Viruses: So, only antivirals would be helpful, but none of these are known to be susceptible to any antiviral we have today. And yet, they come with your tick, and often cause debilitating CNS [Central Nervous System] illnesses:



1. Arboviral Encephalitides: These are also delivered by mosquitoes, but mosquitoes bite mice, squirrels, deer, and chipmunks, which are all known habitats for ticks. So, if a mosquito has it, your tick can have it! They cause meningitis and encephalitis in humans, and are members of three virus classesa: Togoviridae [alphavirus]; Flavivindae; and Bunyvirdae.



2. Western Equine Encephalitis: [WEE] – alphavirus.



9. La Crosse Encephalitis [Buyaviridae]: First found in La Crosse, Wisconsin.



10. Eastern Equine Encephalitis: [EEE]; [alphavirus].



11. St. Louis Encephalitis.



12. Powassen Encephalitis.



13. Venezualan Equine Encephalitis [VEE}; [alphavirus].



14. Other arboviral Encephalitidae: Many others occur through the world. However, with airplanes and birds, there are very few diseases which cannot hit our shores!!
    
    
    1. Japanese Encephalitis: Began in Japan, China, India, Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. So, if the bird flu can reach us, why not the Japanese version of Encephalitis?
    
    
    
15. Tickborne Encephalitis [TBE]: Caused by 2 known, related flaviviruses.



16. West Nile Encephalitis.



17. Murray Valley Encephalitis: Endemic in Australia and New Guinea.

1. Ehrlichiosis
2. Optic Neuritis
3. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
4. Encephalitis
5. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
6. Morphea
7. Myocarditis

You may look at each of these items on their website for further information.

1. Bartonella, or BLO [Bartonella Like Organism]: This is otherwise known as “cat scratch fever” contained in a tick.



2. Morgellons: This is science fiction at its scariest. See www.Morgellons.org to see that fibers will crawl under your skin and create openings in your skin, out of which will emerge brown, red, white, blue, or black fibers. It seems that if one is treated for Lyme disease appropriately, and with IV, this goes away.



3. Tularemia (Rabbit Fever): Many residents of Massachusetts are getting this in ticks, as have residents of Gettysburg.



4. Yeast, Fungus, and Mycoplasmas.

So, dear friends, if you do not get well with “appropriate” treatment for Lyme disease, you most likely have some sort of coinfection. The “fun” part is figuring out which you have.

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