Lyme Disease Cases Are Surging. Who Is Most At Risk?

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Ticks, mosquitoes and fleas, oh my! Cases of Lyme disease are on the rise and it's been reported that blacklegged ticks are carrying some other nasty vector-borne diseases that they can transmit to humans via their bloodsucking bites. According to the World Health Organization, vectors such as ticks, mosquitoes and fleas, account for more than 17% of all infectious diseases, causing more than 700,000 deaths annually. Mosquitoes, the number one culprit worldwide, are known to spread such classic hits as malaria, dengue fever, West Nile virus disease
The Vitals team is here with the answers about how vector-borne diseases spread, and what some researchers are doing to better understand why cases are on the rise. Dr. Alok Patel chats with Dr. Christina Nelson, Medical Officer at the CDC’s Division of Vector-Borne Diseases (DVBD) to get the current “big picture” on Lyme disease, how it is transmitted and what you can do to stay safe while enjoying nature. Also, Eloise Skinner, a researcher in the Mordecai Lab at Stanford University explains how her team is using machine learning to better understand how our human footprint can be a predictor for the transmission and prevention of VBDs. Don’t worry, we will also have a little health lesson on what to do if you get bit by a tick and where to turn if you get infected.
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:: Alok Patel, MD ::
Website: alokpatelmd.com/
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Our guests:
Dr. Christina Nelson is a Medical Officer in CDC’s Division of Vector-Borne Diseases in Fort Collins, Colorado. Dr. Nelson specializes in vector-borne bacterial diseases including plague, tularemia, and Lyme disease.
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Eloise Skinner, PH.D. is a postdoctoral fellow in the Mordecai lab. Currently her research is focussed on climate change and vector-borne diseases in the Australasia-Pacific region, and developing tools for public health decision making
::@DrEloiseSkinner::
Want to learn more?
The World Health Organization’s list of vector-borne diseases:
www.who.int/news-room/fact-sh...
Nature Article featuring the work of Eloise Skinner:
www.nature.com/articles/s4189...
Other Vector-borne diseases ticks are transmitting:
www.npr.org/sections/health-s...
What do if if you get bitten by a tick (CDC)
www.cdc.gov/ticks/pdfs/FS_Tic...
Information on the dengue vaccine:
www.cdc.gov/ncezid/dvbd/media...
Signs and symptoms of Lyme Disease:
www.cdc.gov/lyme/signs_sympto...
Tracking tick bites in your region:
www.cdc.gov/ticks/tickedvisit...
A little insight on why there isn’t a lyme disease vaccine:
www.aamc.org/news/lyme-diseas...
Comprehensive list of diseases transmitted by ticks:
www.cdc.gov/ticks/diseases/in...
Information on EPA’s approved list of repellants:
www.epa.gov/insect-repellents
Check out the work at the Mordecai Lab:
www.mordecailab.com/
This episode of Vitals is licensed exclusively to RU-vid.
00:00 Intro
00:54 Vector-borne diseases, by the numbers
01:59 Alok goes for a walk at Windy Hill Open Space Preserve
02:20 What is a vector and what is vector-borne disease?
03:52 What’s the deal with Lyme disease?
04:52 Climate change and Lyme disease
05:54 Everything you (didn’t) want to know about ticks and now you do…
09:10 How Eloise Skinner is using machine learning to under how VBD spread
11:37 “Get it off, get it off” How to remove a tick and what to do if bitten
13:52 How to avoid a tick bite
15:05 Close

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@tazifermoniker7573 Год назад

I got lyme. I wore long sleeves, socks tucked in and all. I'd even have my roommate check my body when I returned. But I never used any chemicals/lotions/sprays. I must have gotten bit on my scalp or someplace else hard to find because after a few days of being sick with fever and aches my body was covered in the bullseye rash. I got rushed to the hospital and had a long recovery. This was about 5 years ago and I haven't really been the same health wise. I believe John Hopkins put out an article on chronic Lyme symptoms validating it's existence last spring. Regardless, use all precautions you can and don't think it couldn't happen to you. This might not kill you but it could change your lifestyle. Thanks PBS vitals for this video and hopefully we can get that vaccine developed or use scientists knowledge and efforts to avoid getting Lyme. Question though, is there any interest talking about chronic symptoms that can come from things like lyme? Thanks again.

@pbsvitals Год назад

Sorry to hear about your ordeal. Long-term Lyme disease is a subject all its own. No question a good number of people have long-term issues, especially when it's not treated promptly at first. We don't want to just skim the surface on the tricky questions about what treatments may or may not help, but we might dig in for a future episode.

@jessicah3450 Год назад

The ticks that infect you are the size of a poppy seed to a sesame seed. They are very easy to miss.

@shelbylynn9 11 месяцев назад

@@pbsvitals for your long episode, I’d personally love to hear about long-term Lyme! If you feel like making an extra long video, long-term diseases (like long COVID) in general is very interesting. Lots of diseases have long term health effects after the initial infection is treated. It would be really cool to learn about which diseases have a potential to cause long term health effects and a general synopsis about what the most common effect are.

@tracynorris5012 10 месяцев назад

I was diagnosed with Lyme dz 31 yrs ago. Improperly treated with wrong antibiotic. Later diagnosed with Morgellons. And, Delusional parasitoses twice. I gave up on being helped by doctors years ago. I'm so sick and miserable. I'm 58 and nearly bedridden. My cries for help have fallen on Deaf ears, so I no longer have the energy to talk about it. I'm still treated like a head case. I'm college educated, and lost my career as an RN. I've never been wealthy, so no out of pocket money for the long term treatment plan. If anyone has any sound advice please share it. 🙏

@Tirani2 10 месяцев назад

I've had Lyme disease three times, despite precautions every time. The first time was at a festival in Tidewater Virginia, in 2005, and it was inadequately treated; I suffered for months. Eventually, it cleared up, but not before doing damage to the vertebrae in my neck. My second case was in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, and caught early; I was treated. The third case was in suburban Maryland, walking around in my backyard after my second cervical spine surgery. I was following doctor's orders, and got Lyme disease in my backyard! It took 2 months of doxy to clear it up, but eventually it did. Lyme disease is not a joke, and I am glad it's being talked about more. Stay safe everyone.

@safaiaryu12 Год назад

My mom and grandma have both been diagnosed with chronic Lyme Disease. They both lived much of their lives in Missouri, so were likely exposed there. What's interesting is that my mom started experiencing Lyme symptoms while we lived in Texas, and it was really hard to get a diagnosis - apparently doctors didn't want to bother testing for it because Lyme-carrying ticks aren't in Texas?? (Also, this was pre-Obamacare, so doctors were very hesitant to diagnose anyone with a pre-existing condition, which is fair, but...) Once Mom found that out, she went to my PCP whom I trust and very clearly established that she comes from Missouri, her mother is already diagnosed, and she is experiencing similar symptoms. The doc believed her, ran the blood test, and she was positive. So she was finally able to be treated. Lots and lots of antibiotics. Now Mom lives in Missouri again and treatment is much easier to obtain. She's also incredibly casual about ticks??? They scare the absolute CRAP out of me (I still live in Texas, in a city besides) and I'm genuinely nervous to visit her house out in the woods for fear of getting one on me! Last time I found one, I screamed bloody murder and Mom just laughed at me. I guess her logic is, she's already got Lyme, what's it going to do? But ticks are still really gross! 😭

@jessicah3450 Год назад

I got lyme disease in Central Texas. The misconception that is only happens in the Northeast kept me from getting treatment when I still had the bullseye rash. It took 11 years to get diagnosed , and I lost my 20's. I had to drop out of college. I have chronic pain, joint, and nerve damage. Doctors here still believe lyme disease doesn't happen in Texas. It happens in all 50 states.

@s.g.e5523 7 месяцев назад

same theres hope for us.

@elizabethcasey3219 10 месяцев назад

We went to Gettysburg in May, and my husband and I both found ticks. They said they don't want to spray the battlefield because it will harm good bugs as well, but I think they need to do something. Neither one of us got sick, but it kind of makes me not want to go back.

@OvertheRiverandThroughtheWoods Год назад

Unfortunately, we have personal experience with another vector-borne disease, Typhus (transmitted from small mammals to fleas to humans via flea dirt as described in the video for cat scratch fever). It may be "rare" and "tropical" but it happens even in North Texas, where it can put you in the ICU with sepsis (and yet is not likely to be diagnosed correctly).

@lunacouer Год назад

Thank you for covering this! It's really important info to get out. I only wish you'd covered more of the complications of Lyme Disease and how hard it can be to live with if it transitions to an auto-immune disease. Because a lot of people may not notice a tick if it naturally falls off, or correlate their symptoms with a tick bite, they won't see the doctor and get the antibiotics. So many people end up with these auto-immune conditions that honestly, a lot of doctors dismiss, especially in women.

@pbsvitals Год назад

That would be a whole other episode! We may get to it...

@lunacouer Год назад

@@pbsvitals Thank you for replying! It really would help so many people. Just the validation alone would do a world of good, or having something to share with doctors who think this horse is a zebra.

@Gina-dn6xm 10 месяцев назад

That is so true!

@jonathanrichardson122 Год назад

I'm surprised your graphic doesn't include birds and small mammals like mice, squirrells and rabbits which are huge carriers and movers of ticks.

@jessicah3450 Год назад

Migrating birds carry them to every state.

@bretthewitt3890 Год назад

If you suspect you have Lyme, get treatment immediately! The longer you wait, the more damage is done. The damage is irreversible. Dont play games, get treated! I got it and waited to go to the doctor. I knowingly had it for about 3 mos, because I was working a lot. Big mistake! I still have symptoms over 20 years later!

@bretthewitt3890 10 месяцев назад

@gillarasford Glad to hear you are over it!

@tamiwigginton7137 2 месяца назад

Yea....there is not treatment with out Dr. Or money!!

@Gina-dn6xm 10 месяцев назад

The CDC needs new leadership. Undiagnosed lyme will keep you sick. Most people are totally unaware of how dangerous lyme disease can be. I have been on antibiotics for 6 years. My current lyme disease doctor from New York indicated that there is really no cure for late stage lyme. I now no longer hike, but sadly, I'm too sick to hike.

@narcslayer4237 10 месяцев назад

the cdc is a criminal organization that needs to be dismantled, much like all of the alphabet agencies.....

@AQQ529 2 месяца назад

Thanks for talking about Lyme. So many lost everything .

@hakunayo Год назад

Why can't the vaccine that was approved for Lyme disease in the 90s and early aughts not be brought back, if it was safe and effective?

@TheDanEdwards Год назад

Maybe no one makes it anymore.

@davestagner Год назад

Must be a CONSPIRACY. That, or it’s either actually unsafe and/or ineffective.

@spacelemur7955 Год назад

Everyone l know here in Sweden who lives where Lyme disease is prevalent is vaccinated. But then, we are not afraid of vaccines.

@hakunayo Год назад

@@spacelemur7955 That's great! Do you have any idea which vaccine is being used? I'm all for vaccines. It just seems a tremendous waste of resources and time to have to develop a new vaccine from scratch and run it through clinical trials (which are long and expensive), if all of this was already done

@spacelemur7955 Год назад

@@hakunayo Both Boehringer-ingelheim (Netherlands) and Pfizer have Lyme disease vaccines. There may be others. Best wishes.

@robsledgegroupie Год назад

What about chiggers? Those also got me when I lived down south ☹

@DarrenChen 7 месяцев назад

Story well done! I like the actionable steps at the end.

@michaellourie4252 11 месяцев назад

How to easily remove the tick.....get a piece of gorilla tape. Put over area where the tick is. Use a larger piece than you think. Leave the tape on tight to your skin for 120 seconds. SLOWLY AND CAREFULLY start pulling back on the tape. The tick will run out of oxygen and let go of your flesh. Works every time. Where am I?>>>northern NH.

@rubecork7102 Год назад

Found a tick on my shin a few days ago. Was attached about 8 hours. I put mineral silver water on it, and within a couple of minutes it was raising its whole body like it wanted out desperately. I would have liked to see if it could get out by itself, BUT I didn't want to wait, so I pulled it out with tweezers. I didn't expect it to want to pull out; I only applied the water because silver water is known to be great in killing bacteria and infection.

@lindaward3156 Год назад

Part of the reason I clicked on this was in the thumbnail pic, it showed a record of Lyme Disease areas - yet MA was completely blank! I live in MA and Lyme Conn is in the next State over so that makes no sense. Did I miss the explanation as to why? no data? MA is magical? (It is)

@biohackmasters15 Год назад

MA is blacked out. The majority of people have lyme and dont even know it. There's alot of inaccurate info in this video.

@skybluskyblueify Год назад

This episode reminded me to buy flea and tick liquid for my 3 dogs. Thanks!

@goodun2974 Год назад

Wear white socks, tuck your pants legs into your socks, and spray shoes/socks/legs with repellent. In general, light-colored clothing makes it easier to spot ticks if they're climbing up you. Permethrin is the best tick repellent known and paralyzes ticks almost immediately, but don't spray it on exposed skin, only on your clothing. If you're walking your dogs, keep an eye on your pet's legs and nose because they can be a good indicator of when you've found a tick infested area, especially if the pet has light-colored fur.

@tamiwigginton7137 2 месяца назад

Most of us listeners...all ready have it!!!!

@kayakMike1000 Год назад

I need to see the data, there was one early planting season about three years ago and a few warm spring days in april, but a cold start to may...

@Tinyteacher1111 10 месяцев назад

How do you tell a judge your son is in late stages of Lyme because he’s in jail? He’s had 4 seizures in 3 weeks! I also have a LIVE form of Babesia Mycroti! I’m dying! I’m in a MICHIGAN suburb!

@susandoerr3896 Год назад

what herb besides rosemary, garlic etc keeps them away. i would make a dusting powder for my outdoor clothes while in brush and use it and that might help repel

@jessicah3450 Год назад

DEET or Picaridin. Don't risk a tick borne illness insisting on only using natural products.

@goodun2974 Год назад

At 00:25, that's not a deer tick, it's the Longhorn tick which causes an allergy to eating red meat. I personally haven't seen one yet, although I do encounter plenty of ticks while walking my dogs, but the Longhorn tick has indeed been spotted in my New England state and there have been a few cases of people here getting the "alpha gal" meat allergy from tick bites.

@calliopec544 Месяц назад

Lone star tick. We’re infested in the southeast, and I know people that have gotten the alpha gal allergy from a bite.

@goodun2974 Месяц назад

@@calliopec544 , yes, Lonestar tick, Thank you for correcting me. Auto correct doesn't like the name of the tick either because when I typed it out by hand here my phone changed it to the name of the prescription drug lunesta!

@susandoerr3896 Год назад

an opossum will eat many ticks in its lifetime and does not contract rabies like other animals. can be a nuisance but very beneficial.

@jessicah3450 Год назад

They're a lower body temperature than mammals, so the Rabies virus cannot survive in their bodies. They are tick destroying machines. I always welcome them in my yard!

@deborahandrianos463 Месяц назад

Thank you Goverment bio lab in Lyme Connecticut! 🤬🤬🤬🤬

@simonsaysism Год назад

Ok wait, if the old lyme vaccine was safe and only pulled from the market for demand reasons, why is someone bothering to make a whole new vaccine? If there was sufficient demand then wouldn't the old one simply be put back on the market? Or is the new one a step forward in technology?

@justincharvey Год назад

The company that developed the vaccine probably still owns the rights to making it. Even if cases are rising, they may not consider the demand enough for it to be profitable. As other companies develop their own, they are likely searching for ways to reduce the cost of production.

@tamiwigginton7137 2 месяца назад

Yea perfect...if you have money, and you're not being lied to!!!!!

@BruceSimons-xh9ze 7 месяцев назад

Germ theory is disproven. Also too don’t worry about the vector theory anymore as that is also been ruled out as the primary cause of Lyme disease. God bless the Lymies 🌈

@nicolasdanek4225 5 месяцев назад

Simple. Avoid going to woods and forested areas. Maybe use insecticides in your backyard.

@lefantthepainter 3 месяца назад

Not so simple. The birds carry them into backyards, parks and even into the cities.

@John-xp8fc 11 месяцев назад

Thank god for ozone therapy

@tamiwigginton7137 2 месяца назад

Yea if you have money, and you're not being lied too!!!!

@rastus666 10 месяцев назад

Ticks are pretty easy to avoid. Worse are chiggers, which a lot of northerners aren’t familiar with. Can’t see them, and only realize their presence after the intensely itchy bumps start. Cutting wood in the tick and chigger woods of Arkansas, I used Avon Skin-so-Soft with a little patchouli oil on my body, long sleeve shirt and long pants with pant legs taped to keep ticks out, and all outside clothing doused with DEET. I didn’t smell right, but it worked. After working in the woods, checked my body for ticks, and took the hottest shower I could stand.

@MissMeganBeckett 9 месяцев назад

2:15 it’s not quite accurate that there’s no preventative, dressing as recommended and using the recommended chemicals as directed to prevent bug bites as well as checking your body thoroughly for ticks after being in long grass or in the woods are useful although not 100% foolproof ways of preventing Lyme and other similar diseases.

@safffff1000 Год назад

Something else is going on since many more people get ticks on them and don't get sick.

@rubecork7102 Год назад

The video says it takes 36 to 48 hours of attachment by the head of the tick.

@justincharvey Год назад

Not every tick carries the disease or carries enough to cause infection. As was mentioned in one of the interviews, the disease has to pass through multiple layers of transfer, each with their own barriers, to eventually reach a person.

@gwarlow Год назад

1:24 According to your own chart, confirmed cases of lyme disease did NOT increase between 2010 and 2018, yet you say cases are going up and up. Maybe you should use a different chart? NEXT!

@biohackmasters15 Год назад

This video was full of inaccurate information. It's no surprise, though, as we're lied to about everything.

@woodstream6137 Год назад

I would love to see a geographic breakdown of where shingles it's most prevalent. Getting bombarded with commercials about 99% have it and 33% develop symptoms. At 54, i don't know anyone that's had it but doctor keeps pushing for the vaccine. When i tried to research it, all i can find is age and race demographics

@gasparinha Год назад

IANAD, but shingles is not related to your location: it's from the chicken pox/varicella virus that's been hiding in your neurons since childhood. It mostly occurs in people over 50. I know lots of people who've had it (my father was in his early 40s!), and it is awful!! My husband is in between doses (it's a two-dose vaccine), and he was unhappy for a few days after the first shot, but it is 100% worth it.

@woodstream6137 Год назад

@@gasparinha still interested in a geographic breakdown

@rdean150 Год назад

I've known several people in Texas who had shingles. I assume I'll end up getting it when I'm older, because I've known so many people who had it and I definitely had me some chicken pox when I was a kid.

@tamiwigginton7137 2 месяца назад

AND YOU'RE BEING LIED TO AGAIN