Hey LC and others,
I just want to add here that there is a couple of other ways I think people can contract lyme disease.
Last summer my daughters house became terribly infested with fleas. I have a family friend who works for Orkin, and she had already had the house treated three times by our local exterminator.
When I called my friend he was adamant that we get rid of the fleas asap. But...was weary about taking on the job himself. He says it is next to impossible to kill them once they get that bad....and they, like some parasites, go into a cyst form to preserve themselves.
The point is.....he told me that you can get lyme disease from fleas!!(btw, my 5 yr old grandson was sick and went to doc, and I mentioned lyme because of the flea bites, like probably 100, and he went ahead and "treated" him, just in case
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I have googled fleas and lyme and apparently they are indeed a vector. I live in the southeast....and there are seemingle millions of deer in my area. I am sure that all the animals, insects, and birds carry lyme disease, and I am almost positive that my kids and grandkids, and husband have it.
I wonder this though, can PEOPLE be carriers of lyme as they are with AIDS and other diseases, and not be symptomatic themselves. The reason I wonder is because I am positive my husband has had ticks on him, as we have pulled many off of him, but not in decades have I found one on myself.....yet I have tested "positive" and he shows no signs of the disease.
Here is a link that I think is one posibility of my positive results, and I am sure most medical professionals would disagree....but lately I don't put too much stock in the medical professionals of this world.
RECOVERY OF LYME SPIROCHETES BY PCR IN SEMEN SAMPLES OF PREVIOUSLY DIAGNOSED LYME DISEASE PATIENTS
Just something for folks to think about that know for sure they have never been tic bit.....but there are many other vectors for lyme besides this theory.
Niecy
God Bless You All