Ixodoidea, or more commonly known as “tick”, despite its tiny size, is feared by hunters, ranchers and other sectors that are in constant contact with nature. The bite of this arachnid can be completely harmless, or, on the contrary, make people and animals sick and even cause death.
What diseases do ticks transmit?
There are many and very diverse diseases that ticks can transmit. In Spain, specifically, the most relevant are the Lyme’s desease -which we will know next-, the button fever caused by the common tick cutaneous borreliosis transmitted by the ornithodorid tick Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, transmitted by ticks of the genus Hyalomma and Anaplasmosis y Ehrlihiosis which are respectively caused by the bacteria of the same name.
Difficult diagnosis of Lyme disease
After an incubation period of 3 to 32 days, the symptoms of the localized early phase appear: the characteristic initial sign is Erythema migratinga skin lesion after inoculation which, although it appears in 70-80% of cases, it can go unnoticed and is often accompanied by a flu-like syndrome.
Among other things, this is one of the main problems of this disease, which does not have very specific symptoms and therefore, on many occasions, can be confused with other ailments such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or multiple sclerosis.
With these diseases it shares the clinical picture of the ffever, chills, headache, fatigue, muscle and joint pain, and swollen lymph nodes.
According to verified reports, in the last fifteen years the cases of hospitalization for this disease have tripled in Spain and the largest number of patients occurs in the north of Spain, coinciding with the endemic areas. Ordinary professional activities in the rural territory (forestry or agriculture) are compatible with these results.
the vaccine arrives
Scientists from the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment, in collaboration with the National Social Security Administration and the Alfort National Veterans School, have developed a method that modifies the blood of the recipient of the sting in such a way that, when the tick feeds on it, it kills the bacteria of the Borrelia genus (the transmitters of the disease), thus preventing them from proliferating and attacking the body of the recipient person.
2023-07-31 14:17:00
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