Guns, Bows, Shooting Sports, and Hunting Operation Paperclip and Lyme Disease...

[hammersley]

This could explain WHY I never heard of Lyme Disease growing up in Central PA in the 50's... ... .



Plum Island, Lyme Disease

And Operation Paperclip -

A Deadly Triangle

From Patricia Doyle, PhD



Plum Island, Lyme Disease And Operation Paperclip - A Deadly Triangle





This is an excellent historical documentation of Plum Island's history even before it became the USDA Plum Island. The history goes back to operation paperclip and to PROVEN tick research on Plum Island dating back to the 1950s. Plum Island also worked with lone star ticks. ... I wondered how lone star ticks from Texas would get to my backyard in NY. The ticks had some help, i. e. germ scientists... and Plum Island.

 

[JLEONARD]

Lyme disease is a big deal around here (Ct). I know several who have it or have had it. It's effects vary. Sometimes there are no effects, sometimes it can be dibilitating. Sometimes effects last for years.

Our dog and the neighbor's dog got Lyme disease last year. A few pills and both were ok but vet said it could flare back up again anytime.



I cruise past Plum Island several times each boating season. Hmm... .

 

[kenny61]

Lyme , Ct Lyme disease



Let your friend know they make a lyme vaccine for dogs. It may be too late for his but I'm not sure. My vet has vaccinated a ton of dogs including mine with no side effects and has not had any lyme related illness after vaccination. He's hoping there will be a human version soon

 

[SRath]

A nasty little tick!

My dog and I both got it back in '89. I got it again in '07, which was an epidemic year for it around here.



Very few doctors, to this day, know how to treat it properly, which means being VERY aggressive with the antibiotics and NOT letting up after 30 days just because the obvious symptoms seem to go away.



It is a virus that can hide in the brain where antibiotics cannot kill it. In all 3 cases, re-treatment was necessary (for my dog, and for me twice).



In '07, the tick, normally nearly impossible to see. had been feeding on the back of my calf right at the sock line for so long, it had swollen many times it's normal size. My son spotted it when I got out of the shower one day.



Through it's lifecycle, a deer tick (black-legged tick) will feed 3 times on animal blood. The real problem comes from all the really nasty stuff it collects in those prior feedings. You can end up with a horrible cocktail of diseases all in one.



That particular tick imparted a flesh eating disease where it was attached, which is not commonly a lyme disease symtom or effect. Even after treatment, the bite site continued to rot and decay deeper and deeper until it looked like a bullet wound. Every time it would scab over, the scab would fall off revealing further flesh decay beneath. It left a scar crater I can stick the tip of a finger in.



If you are an outdoorsman, and I don't care where you live, you need to protect yourself and your family and pets from these evil parasites. All ticks are capable of imparting horrible diseases and viruses. They live in the dirt and feed on blood; utter filth. 'nuff said?



This is what the bite looked like about a week after removing the tick:

 

[kenny61]

They live in the dirt and feed on blood; utter filth. 'nuff said?

Sounds like a politician...