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Ick factor: A new report shows incidents of tick-borne babesiosis are climbing.
RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Lyme disease is complicated. Hard to reliably diagnose with lab tests, the tick-borne disease can cause a wide range of symptoms that often wax, wane, and migrate, confusing doctors and patients alike. (In fact, many doctors don't even acknowledge that chronic Lyme exists, leaving many infected patients in chronic pain.)
But Lyme isn't the only disease that can come from a tick bite. According to a report published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, doctors believe babesiosis, a protozoan parasite that infiltrates and reproduces in our red blood cells, is on the rise in certain parts of the country. "Babesiosis can be found in ticks throughout the country, but is most concentrated in the Northeast, Upper Midwest, and West Coast," explains Andrea Gaito, MD, a rheumatologist on the board of directors for the International Lyme and Associated Disease Society (ILADS). "All doctors have seen an increase in the cases of babesiosis because more ticks are infected."
THE DETAILS: Babesiosis is caused by the parasite Babesia microti, which is most often carried by deer ticks. Most cases of babesiosis, a malarialike ailment featuring fever, chills, headache, nausea, muscle pains, fatigue, anemia, shortness of breath, and even anxiety and panic, occur in the Northeast and Midwest; between 2001 and 2008, researchers recorded a 20-fold increase in babesiosis in the Lower Hudson Valley in New York. While healthy people may not even know they've been infected and recover without treatment, the very young, elderly, and those with stressed immune systems from other health problems, including Lyme disease or another infection from a tick bite, face a more serious, possibly life-threatening illness. Blood smear tests can detect the presence of babesia germs, however they aren't always accurate because the germs may infect less than 1 percent of circulating blood.
Antibiotics and malaria medication, such as azithromycin and mepron, are commonly used to treat babesiosis. As of January 2011, the infection became a notifiable disease, meaning new cases will be reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This will make it easier to monitor the disease.
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It's not "Ticks don't just carry Lyme disease"; it's "Ticks don't carry just Lyme disease."
By modifying "carry" with "just," the writer implies that ticks do far more with the Lyme disease pathogen than merely carry it, e.g., nurture it, breed it, advise it, dress it, feed it, groom it, counsel it, school it, etc.
Of course, all readers understand what the writer means. It's just sad that someone paid to write writes so poorly. Readers shouldn't be required to compensate for a professional writer's shortcomings.
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