THE EPICENTER OF TICK BORNE DISEASE IN CALIFORNIA!!!
Did you know that not only is there Lyme Disease in CALIFORNIA, but that the highest percentage ever documented was found in NISENE MARK STATE PARK, Aptos, Santa Cruz County, California???
Did you know that Multiple Sclerosis is indistinguishable from Lyme disease on MRI and that spinals are often negative in Lyme disease?
17.8% MINIMUM RATE OF INFECTION in ADULT ticks was documented in a study published in the 2003 Journal of Medical Entomology by the San Jose State Entomology Department!!
Because of the Western Fence lizard, adult ticks in California always have a substantially lower MIR than nymphal ticks. Professor Bob Lane, entomologist at UC Berkeley, found that with adults in Mendocino having rates of 3%, the nymphs were an astounding 40% infection rate!!! So if
40% nymphs= 3% adults
then
??% nymphs= 17.8% adults.
Do the math!!!
Did you know that Aptos, Santa Cruz County was the first place in California where Human Monocytic Ehrlichiosis was documented? There are two kinds of Ehrlichiosis, now known as Anaplasmosis, in Santa CRuz County- HME and HGE- Human Granulytic Ehrlichiosis.
Did you know that Bartonella henselae, "cat scratch fever" was found to be a TBD and that ticks as near as Santa Clara County have shown MIRs as high as 40%?
Did you know that Babesiosis has never been reported or documented in Santa Cruz County- despite multiple blood positives in our local support group which were taken down to the local Department of Health Services at Emeline?
Did you know that in the only comprehensive TBD serosurvey (blood testing) ever done of a Californian community 23% came up blood positive for either Lyme disease, Ehrlichiosis or Babesiosis?
That study, which showed a shocking 17% blood positive for the WA1 strain of Babesiosis, spurred authorities to do a study of WA1 seropositivity in two geographically distinct areas (read ticky and non-ticky). The results? Of communities of actual Californians?
3.5% and 16% Minimum Infection Rates in actual Californians- so of a total of 3 communities sampled, we have rates of 3.5%, 16% and 17%. That would certainly qualify WA1 Babesiosis as an epidemic in California- a disease that can cause presentations from atshma to death.
We have an online group you can join at SCLyme@yahoogroups.com We also have an in-person meeting at 6401 Freedom Blvd the 4th Thursday of every month from 7-9 pm. You can also email californialyme@cruzio.com or call 831-662-3628
We have a Local-Doctors-To-Avoid List, pretty self-explanatory, which contains the names
Mickiewicz
Miller
& Ramanujam. No person diagnosed with Lyme disease who has contacted local groups has ever had a positive experience with them. They insist there is no Lyme disease in Santa Cruz despite the scientific research which proves that Santa Cruz has higher MIRs than many parts of CT!!!
LASTLY, a local paper ran an article years ago about a cluster of autism in Aptos, which happens to be where our TBD Support group also has a cluster because it is the highest MIR in all of California. Surely these two facts may possibly be related because *Lyme can cause autism*. Anyone who is interested in attending the LIA Foundation (Lyme Induced Autism) Conference it is June 23-24 at UC Irvine outside of LA, California. Dr. Jones from CT is the main speaker. Yes, Lyme can cause autism. Yes, there is an autism cluster in the SAME place there is a Lyme cluster. How STRANGE*)!
Most importantly- if you are sick with a TBD,
you CAN GET BETTER!!!
There's a discussion group under the listing FLASH at
lymenet.org
the Lyme Disease Memorial Page has 2 people from Santa Cruz on it- one was a suicide-
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/lymedisease/Lyme/Memorial.html
