The real host of lyme bacteria.... Not ticks but white footed mice

Hi all,

I have researched this for many years and just want to bring this topic up once again...

The real host of most lyme bacteria come from the white-footed mouse. Blood sucking vectors feed on these mice (including ticks) thus these vectors will carry lyme bacteria.

Link below (believe me, there are plenty of more links besides this one, just google it for yourself):

From Dr. Mercola:

While deer usually gets the blame for spreading tick-borne disease, rodents are actually the primary threat. According to Richard Ostfeld, a disease ecologist at a Lyme disease research center.

“The resurgence of deer population is an overblown factor. Our research suggests that white-footed mice are more important numerically. Basically, mice are a fantastic host for both the tick and [the bacteria that causes Lyme.”

Ticks are not born with the Lyme spirochetes. It picks up the bacteria when feeding on an infected host. Ostfeld’s research indicates that white-footed mice infect 75-95 percent of larval ticks that feed on them, while deer only infect about one percent.

articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/07/29/lyme-disease-tick-epidemic.aspx

Personally, I think ticks get too much credit...
Denise

This is what happens in parts of Africa, where they think there is a high rate of Neuroborreliosis (people often think they have relapsing malaria, but scientists think it is in some or many cases neuroborreliosis). Ticks attach themselves onto rats, that are small enough to drop them off almost everywhere...

This is interesting. My deer in my yard are so pretty and clean looking. I hate to suspect them. Besides, I was bit at a friend's house.

Oh and guess what????? I saw said friend the other day and she had a bite right about the same place on her arm as I got. My eyes bugged out. She said, "because of you I went straight to the doctor and he put me on doxy. He thinks it is a spider bite." She said she got bit, never saw the spider and immediately got feeling like the flu. I didn't feel anything for a month. I hope hers is a spider bite.

It's regional.

In California, the grey squirrel is the biggest culprit. For example, studies have shown that 86% of tick larvae carrying Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) were infected by the western grey squirrel. (Salkeld et al, 2008)
On the East Coast, the white-footed mouse is the primary host.
Birds and many small mammals can also harbor Lyme bacteria. Notably, the white-tailed deer supports the tick, but not the spirochete. These hosts provide the ticks with a bountiful supply of food (i.e., blood meals), enabling the ticks to live, reproduce, and/or infect a human.
Interestingly, research by Dr. Robert Lane and others at the University of California at Berkeley, has documented that when ticks feed off a Western Fence lizard, the Bb bacteria inside them is destroyed. These lizards use the complement pathway of their immune system to destroy the Bb bacteria with proteins that burst the bacterial cells. Understanding this phenomenon may provide insights into treatments for humans.


From Bayarealyme.org

Post Edited (jrpsf) : 9/24/2015 11:52:20 AM (GMT-6)

"Interestingly, research by Dr. Robert Lane and others at the University of California at Berkeley, has documented that when ticks feed off a Western Fence lizard, the Bb bacteria inside them is destroyed. These lizards use the complement pathway of their immune system to destroy the Bb bacteria with proteins that burst the bacterial cells. Understanding this phenomenon may provide insights into treatments for humans."

- WOW

jrpsf said...
It's regional.

In California, the grey squirrel is the biggest culprit. For example, studies have shown that 86% of tick larvae carrying Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) were infected by the western grey squirrel. (Salkeld et al, 2008)
On the East Coast, the white-footed mouse is the primary host.
Birds and many small mammals can also harbor Lyme bacteria. Notably, the white-tailed deer supports the tick, but not the spirochete. These hosts provide the ticks with a bountiful supply of food (i.e., blood meals), enabling the ticks to live, reproduce, and/or infect a human.
Interestingly, research by Dr. Robert Lane and others at the University of California at Berkeley, has documented that when ticks feed off a Western Fence lizard, the Bb bacteria inside them is destroyed. These lizards use the complement pathway of their immune system to destroy the Bb bacteria with proteins that burst the bacterial cells. Understanding this phenomenon may provide insights into treatments for humans.


From Bayarealyme.org

The problem with these quotes is that there are documented cases of hunters getting Lyme from field dressing a deer while they had a cut or open wound on them - so obviously the deer had spirochetes as well.

And don't you just love those sites that have information on these diseases/infections, yet have it set up so that you can't share a link to it? Drives me up a wall!! They seemed to have missed the point of sharing since we are all in this together I think.

"Bay Area Lyme Foundation is doing a lot more for Lyme than the CDC" Ha ha ha - that's not hard!! LOL! Sorry, I know they are, but I couldn't resist!!


And by the way, that link will take you to the site, but tells you "page not found". But I actually use that site for good information to share with others as well.

But smiles for you!!! LOL!!!