What makes Australians sick after a tick bite?
Press release from the Lyme Disease Association of Australia, March 21, 2018:
The Lyme Disease Association of Australia (LDAA) is currently funding a new patient focused pilot research study which is taking place here in Australia. The project aims to test clinical samples from patients, embracing an innovative method for the diagnosis of vector-borne infections including those from tick bites.
LDAA CEO Ms Whiteman said, ‘Australians who are desperately unwell after a tick bite have waited years for credible research to uncover what is making them sick. This is an extremely exciting project and we believe the results could be groundbreaking.’
Research grant
‘LDAA received a research grant from the Country Women’s Association (CWA) of NSW and we are delighted to be able to support this research. It is evident the researchers are actually working towards gaining new insights that will help patients receive a reliable diagnosis for this terrible disease. We are hopeful this innovative approach will turn things around for patients.’
The study utilizes a proprietary capture methodology that has not previously been employed in the detection of tick-borne pathogens in Australia.
The researchers undertaking this project have extensive experience in the fields of microbiology, research science, infectious diseases, auto-immune conditions, and public health. With research previously published in the Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, a prestigious international journal, they form a formidable team. The lead researcher has worked in the vector-borne infectious disease discipline for many years.
What makes Australians sick after a tick bite?
Vectors are living organisms that can transmit infectious diseases between humans or from animals to humans. Many of these vectors are bloodsucking insects, which ingest disease producing microorganisms during a blood meal from an infected host (human or animal) and later inject it into a new host during their subsequent blood meal. Mosquitoes, ticks and fleas are the best-known disease vectors. Vector-borne diseases include Lyme disease, malaria and dengue fever.
The study results will be submitted for publication in peer reviewed journals with wide readership by Australian medical practitioners. Ms Whiteman said, ‘Evidence of what is making Australians sick after a tick bite could change the lives of thousands of patients who are currently falling through the cracks in this evidence-based policy world.’
God and I thought the US health INDUSTRY & CDC were bad! Reduced to tears watching this, as I was told the same things. All in your head ( well yeah the bacteria was in my brain) causing Lyme meningitis, Vision loss, bulging eye, seizures. Who would make up a seizure! Then they thought I had MS. I now totally avoid the doctors in my Utah town; some insist even now we don’t have Lyme here, I couldn’t get it here! Ignorant!! (but none ever even asked if I traveled – which is irrelevant because the insects are traveling!) In fact, they even knew I was a “high risk” person ie: an active outdoor person gardening, rafting, hiking through woods, and working for Mosquito Abatement in the wetland! I had to figure it out myself. I am especially offended by that Aussie Health official that insists the US Specialty Lab is falsifying results. That lab has been thoroughly accredited and certified by both California and New York. What an ignoramus! I was lucky I still had some money to pay for the specialty test, which was positive even by the idiotic CDC standards – but not recorded as a Lyme case by Utah CDC. Why? I didn’t have the rash!
It is fairly common knowledge among us Lymies, that heat kills bacteria. One doesn’t need to spend money in a special chamber! Saunas, hot baths,infrared treatment, going out in the hot sun – all will cause a die-off that should be followed with detox/herx support. But a person also needs the combinations of antibiotics and herbs for quite a lengthy time.
Kathy mcgill — A very concise excellent comment. There is so much to say, but you did it quite well. I have become well acquainted with a number of Austrailian Lyme victims. Their stories are so desperate. If I could post a pdf here I would post one of the most touching stories about Mandi Loren. She has been so extremely medically abused. She post a lot of videos on youtube. She does not post much of when she was well thinking the videos of how sick she will tell the story. She really never had a chance, but could have if she was given proper Lyme treatment. They put her in a old people’s rest home at age 29. She has not been able to care for her young son so he is growing up without her. She was expecting a little girl and the doctors took her baby telling her it would heal her. It did not, her baby more than likely could have lived and she morns that child every day. I would love to post her story as written by the President of the Australia Lyme Support group, but do not know how to do it. Thank you for your comment.
Instead of lives getting better, things just seem to get worse! When will this end?
Could we have a link to the previous research by this group, said to be in Emerging Infectious Diseases journal? Also wondering what this proprietary capture method is.