Heartland Virus and unrecognized diseases in humans and animals - Page 1

Just a lot of tick borne diseases out there that can not be tested for and that industrial medicine does not recognize for a lot of reasons.  Primarily doctors and veterinarians don't test for diseases and infections they can't get paid for.  Just as was the case for Lyme disease for dogs after it was recognized in humans as a diseases around 1970 ( after being in existence for 15,000 years ) these new tick borne diseases will be dismissed as non existent even though people and animals are dying from them.

http://news.sciencemag.org/health/2015/09/heartland-virus-may-occur-across-eastern-u-s?utm_campaign=email-news-latest

A dangerous tick-borne virus that first surfaced in humans in Missouri in 2009 appears to be common in wildlife across the central and eastern United States, according to a new study. Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Fort Collins, Colorado, found evidence of the so-called Heartland virus in deer, raccoons, coyotes, and moose in 13 states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland_virus

Because the Heartland Virus is a virus it can not be treated with doxycycline or antibiotics .. diagnosis is primarily made via symptoms and the non-response to antibiotics.  This is a disease that will cost $1000 in lab tests with no results or that lab tests will lead to the wrong conclusion.  Lab testing is not fool proof or lab tests can be inconclusive or incorrect as these tests are done and interpreted by humans.  About the only way a doctor or veterinarian will get a Heartland Virus infection right is by looking for it so the patient and doctor must both know that this virus exists and is widely disseminated.

"We wanted to raise awareness about this in the medical community," Komar says. But Fish says it's too early for that.

"There's enough paranoia about tick-borne diseases out there right now.” 

Yup, just more justification for the use of anti tick toxins to poison dogs and humans.

There is no consensus that The Heartland Virus is only spread by ticks or which types and developmental stages of ticks are responsible. As a virus it could also be spread by mosquitoes and it is a relative of West Nile Virus. Likewise the medical industrial complex has no idea as to which animals other than humans are susceptible or are hosts/vectors for the Heartland virus. My post was only to raise awareness that the SNAP type tests and even more sophisticated and expensive tests will not pick up this virus. When Lyme was finally acknowledged as a disease in humans around 1981 with the ID of the pathogen the doctors and vets stated without reservation that dogs were not affected. It is not what we don't know that is dangerous ... it is that which we know and is wrong that does the most harm. Th pathogen which causes Lyme and other tick born diseases were isolated from 15,000 year old ticks encased in amber. Lyme was affecting humans and animals for thousands of years before our brilliant "scientist and doctors" finally using both hands found their butts. And so it goes .. the dog's owner and keeper is the only friend the dog has, to doctors and veterinarians we are all just potential income streams.

The Connecticut town, Old Lyme, played a major role in Lyme disease history as it was here, in 1975, that a group of concerned parents questioned the alarming incidence of rheumatoid arthritis in their children. Researchers, including Allen C. Steere, moved in to investigate the cluster of around fifty cases and the children were diagnosed, incorrectly, with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. In 1976 however a cluster of cases at a naval medical hospital in Connecticut forced clinicians to revise their opinions on the disease and Steere changed the diagnosis to Lyme Arthritis in 1977.
Following extensive investigation as to the cause of the condition the researcher Willy Burgdorferi identified, in 1981, the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto as responsible for the development of Lyme disease in the cases in Connecticut.

These cases were not the first instance of Lyme disease however, with Alfred Buchwald documenting the disease back in 1883 albeit as a chronic skin condition now thought to be acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans. Subsequently, other variations of the Borrelia bacteria have been found to cause Lyme disease and these infectious bacteria are now known as Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato which encompasses several individual bacterial species.