Mosquitos, fleas, lice & LYME

[Dont_tick_me_off]

hey everyone.. just doing some research and finding some interesting reads online, wondering what everyone thinks!

I've always had the theory, or should I say believe in the theory (which I'm sure a ton of you have) that Lyme is not only transmitted by ticks, but other blood-vector insects (mosquitoes, fleas, head lice, mites, etc.)

If a  mosquito can transmit Encephalitis and a tick can transmit Encephalitis then why can’t mosquitoes transmit Lyme and Lyme related co-infections to humans/animals?? I mean, to me it only makes sense. Not to mention, how many people get bit my mosquitoes (WITH A “S” that’s plural) EVERY DAY in the summer time, not all of us who are subjected to mosquitoes on a daily base are exposed to even a single tick in the summer months. I mean what would the ratio of mosquito bites be to tick bites??  

And think about this… if mosquitoes can transmit Lyme.. maybe that would explain all these other diseases that are so close to Lyme (ie: MS, Fibro, Alzheimer’s ALS.. CFS.. Lupus etc. It would be so easy to contract the infection of Bb via mosquito bite(s). Hence why people don’t even think of Lyme disease being the cause of their problems and symptoms.. “A tick??, I’ve never been bitten by one of those”

I had Two EM rashes.. I did not see any kind of tick or “out of the ordinary” bite

In order for a female mosquito to fertilize its eggs it needs to feed off of a mammal.
A female misquote lives anywhere from approximately 2 weeks to a month (giving her many opportunities to bite victims) , and lays THOUSANDS of eggs in its life time.

Not to mention… if that mosquito bites a human who has Lyme or an animal that has Lyme.. will that “infected” blood supply be transmitted to the mosquitoes’ eggs??? her spawns??? So now, not only is she infecting everyone she’s biting, but now she has created thousands of little thirst driven pests that carry lyme and our feeding off us poor uneducated victims of Lyme.

Is anyone on the same page as me??? Have any of you found some good supporting articles???

Love to my Lymies,
Michelle.

P.S Loving the controversial subject about if Bb is transmitted sexually… if the Syphilis spirochete is transmitted sexually, how is Lyme not?????

[wonko]

Even if other bugs serve as vectors, which is a controversial theory, it is widely accepted that ticks are the primary vector.

I'm just a community member and not an expert.  I don't think that all other diseases such as MS, ALS, lupus are really Lyme in disguise.  If so, I would think that there would be a correlation between those diseases and tick populations.  The only geographical correlation of which I'm aware is that people further from the equator are more likely to get MS, and that correlation is thought to be due to vitamin D.  

I do believe that as Lyme spreads yet information about it trails, more cases are being misdiagnosed.  I wonder if in the future we will see cases where a region has a cluster of rare disease diagnoses that turn out to actually be Lyme.  It would not surprise me, as Lyme can mimic other diseases so well and also poses testing difficulties.

For now I remain a skeptic about other bugs transmitting Lyme.  I could be wrong, or it could be a newly emerging problem associated with the spread of this disease.  I'll be interested as more information becomes available.

I did read recently that birds are thought to play a part in transporting ticks infected with Lyme disease across the country.  The study, out of Yale, notes that the spread of ticks by birds could be why Lyme is showing up in so many more parts of the country than it did at first.

http://publichealth.yale.edu/news/jan10/birds-lyme-disease.html

[jacob69]

i ben getting bit by fleas and know i have a red bumpy rash and it ichis like crazy  how do i get rid of it ???????

[Chulita100]

From what you've written it makes sense that lyme would be that easly transmitted, i'm curious to hear other responses, I will pose the question to my doctor, I wonder what kind of answer I will get, hope he doesn't get annoyed :) I go to the doc Feb 5th.