I just Googled it and came up with several websites...the details are a
bit hard to find.
http://www.aldf.com/pdf/postersmall.pdf
If a tick is attached to your skin for less than 24 hours, your chance of
getting Lyme disease is extremely small.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/prevention/ld_prevention_avoid.htm
A tick needs a blood meal from a host in order to molt
(progress to the next stage of its life cycle), and to reproduce
(lay eggs). This feeding process continues for several days to
a week until the tick is fully engorged with blood. It then
releases its hold on the host, drops off, and subsequently molts
or lays eggs.
If the tick is infected with pathogenic organisms (for
example, Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme disease), it
can transmit the infection to the host during the feeding
process.
**As the tick feeds, the pathogens multiply, migrate to
the tick's salivary glands, and are carried into the wound site
along with the saliva.
Successful transmission of pathogens requires the tick to be
attached for at least several hours.*
Therefore, the sooner
infective ticks are removed, the less likely they will be able to
transmit infection. It is impossible to tell if a tick is infected
just by looking at it. Only analysis in a laboratory can
determine infection status.
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=vq=cache:pzRGwRQgoOYJ:www.smdc.army.mil/2008/Safety/Articles/Tickremoval.pdf+remove+tick+withinhl=engl=uspid=blsrcid=ADGEESgU10GWSAELoN3RM_sIGq7b79lb2RfQJiKV9o3Oevwf6My2AC2T9zgAp15hAG8fri0ZHoglF2SVZYWL_zCKlw_5PQ6cXlImhJA8cRSn2gqsQDkXWRaDgp-3fZ4JuU676EdjCJAWsig=AHIEtbRXwi7aYKOb_x6Z0ErFSb-tDGblWg
At 09:45 AM 7/7/2010 -0700, you wrote:
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3283916
Hi Ken, suggest you check out this link, recent experimental work on
transfer of B. Burgorferi between ticks, host animals, and humans. Also,
if you have the link to your source re. 'gestation' of the bug in
ticks,I'd be very interested in checking it out for my own info. Around
here the tick is the black-legged, or ixodes pacificus - you probably
have ixodes scapularis in your neck of the woods.
Take care,
Malcolm
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 05:38 -0400, Ode Coyote wrote:
It has to do with spirochete gestation period that only happens after a
certain time after the tick gets a drop of blood.
IOW it's a disease the tick has, lying dormant, that wakes up and
moves TO
its gut AFTER it gets a meal and takes time to develop...not one it
carries
around in its gut and is, therefore, not in its gut TO regurgitate till
after several hours.
Now...If you get to it AFTER the gestation period, sureproper removal
can prevent transmission.
Wadda I know..just repeating the research.
I get bit several times a year and have been so covered with the little
buggers I couldn't tell my jeans were blue. [and had to scrape them off
with a hunting knife.. FREAKY ]
Twice a day tick search..so far so good.
It helps to have a friend that likes to see you naked...and a tiny little
crowbar.
Ode
At 09:07 AM 7/6/2010 -0700, you wrote:
Ode,
Your statement below is generally not true. Even if one gets the tick off
quickly, as you suggest, the contents of the tick's stomach may have been
regurgitated into the bite and the blood and lymph will carry it to all
parts of the body, quickly, and then start reproducing or hiding until
it is
safe to start reproducing. This includes the brain and is known as
neurolyme. We have to remember that the general population, unlike
you, do
not have CS running through their body, nor do most even know what CS is.
The reason I say your statement is generally not true is that, many people
do not know how to correctly remove a tick without squeezing it. And
if the
tick should happen to be infected, then no matter how quickly you got the
tick off of the body, the contents of the tick's stomach will have been
regurgitated into the bite. Some people are very, very lucky and have
immune
systems that are strong and healthy, but read below, and you will see that
not even that is a guarantee that a future attack from that specific bite
will not ever surface.
What will matter and make all the difference to a life is the means by
which
one eliminates or kills off the spirochetes and co-infections
delivered into
the system through the bite. One may have an excellent immune system
which
will help eliminate it or not. But why take the chance. This is a life
threatening disease which can lay dormant in the body for years for
when the
immune system is not up to par. These spirochetes are extremely
intelligent
and know when to begin their attack. They are pleomorphic organisms and
also some have been designed by humans for biowarfare. The immune system
cannot recognize those designed for biowarfare and so doesn't know that it
has been attacked and do not rev up to fight what they don't recognize.
ABX is indicated for any tick bite,
