Re: Fatal disease showing up in more house cats

[Guest guest]

This was very interesting.......and scary.

I think we would be shocked at the real number of diseases that the tick

transmits.

I find it baffling as to why the bobcats are not infected with disease,

much like the deer and mouse are not infected with lyme, erlichiosis, and

babisiosis........certainly puzzling. A friend of mine who hunts, says

that the deer are covered head to toe with swollen ticks......yet the deer

isn't sick.

Have the animals developed some type of immunity after years of exposure to

these bacteria and parasitic diseases? Why can't researchers find a

vaccination that would prevent us developing these diseases transmitted by a

tick.

[Guest guest]

conniek@... wrote:

I think we would be shocked at the real number of diseases

that the tick transmits. I find it baffling as to why

the bobcats are not infected with disease, much like the

deer and mouse are not infected with lyme, erlichiosis,

and babisiosis........certainly puzzling. A friend of

mine who hunts, says that the deer are covered head to

toe with swollen ticks......yet the deer isn't sick ...

Hi All,

These animals ARE infected; otherwise ticks would not

be able to pick up diseases by sucking their blood.

I have never been sick with Lyme, although I'm sure the

spirochetes are doing long-term damage as they " chew "

away on me.

It is very much to a parasite's advantage to keep

its host functioning and capable of transmission.

It's conceivable that deer ticks have fed on me, dropped

off, and transmitted Lyme.

Syphillis is a classic example. When some of Columbus'

sailors were carried off the ship on arriving in Barcelona,

they were covered with sores. A syphillis epidemic

then ravaged Europe. Why do you think the style became

neck ruffs, long sleeves, wigs, and pancake face makeup?

Those syphillis variants which did not make their carriers

loathesome had a survival advantage; and the disease

rapidly changed in Europe to its modern form. Of course,

Europe returned the favor by exporting smallpox to the

Americas.

I am not immune to Lyme. I think I'm in a situation

similar to those who are malaria tolerant -- they aren't

killed by their own fever. This could mean that Lyme is

far more widespread than we imagine.

Jack

[Guest guest]

Hi, my name is eve. I have a cat and my vet is adament that cats cannot get or

transmit lyme. as for getting ticks on them i guess i have been lucky my cat has

never even had a flea. I think I got lyme from a tick jumping off of someone

else, go figure, i sure haven't figured it out yet...eve

[Guest guest]

I have a cat and my vet is adament that cats cannot get or transmit lyme.

They can, there is proof of it, first place I think of is in the book

'Everything You need to know about Lyme Disease' by Forschner. Vet is

not very informed if they believe that. Guess that is the same as people

saying 'lyme isnt in my county/state, is in the next one over, but not ours'

as if ticks can see county/state line signs *-)

i sure haven't figured it out yet...eve

You probably never will. The Lyme infected tick to human life cycle can

be year(s) long. First a female tick bites , say, an infected mouse, tick

never gets to a human but feeds off a deer then lays her eggs. Those eggs

hatch into nymphal ticks the size of a period....... they now carry Lyme

disease, maybe they feed off a human, maybe not. It may be generations

before that Lyme infects a human.Hundreds if not thousands of that first

females offspring now have Lyme. Any mammal can get/carry Lyme, birds,

mice, cats etc. If your cat goes outside, it has had fleas if not ticks.

Even preventatives will still allow a tick/flea to 'ride' in on a cat/dog,

may not allow the tick/flea to live after it bites, but until it (

tick/flea) ingests blood, it can still ride away.