Health Care

by Warren Starnes

The primary culprit of lyme disease are ticks that can be found almost anywhere. If you have pets for instance, it is difficult not to have ticks flying and crawling into your furniture and even your clothes.

It is essential therefore to keep your pets clean and free from ticks. Additionally, the tick species that are susceptible to these bacteria - called deer tick - are parasitic thus they need a host to survive. Typically, the hosts would include, aside from your pets, deer, rodents and other small furry and warm blooded animals.

In more rural areas with abundance in the deer population, positive data has been gathered on the utilization of guinea fowls as a way to control deer tick. Domesticated guinea fowls have quite a large appetite for the critters and may be the most natural way that the growth in the population of ticks in an area can be kept in check. Additionally, chemical-based pest control methods are also used to eradicate deer tick. In some areas, there is also an increasing demand to decrease the population of deer - the main hosts that these bacteria-carrying ticks depend on. Reproduction of this critter normally happens successfully through a host white tailed deer.

Aside from Lyme disease, there are other diseases that can be caused by the deer tick and the eradication of the ticks would be tantamount to successful prevention of these ailments. A vaccine has also been added to the preventive measures that can help stop Lyme disease from occurring. This recombinant vaccine was developed by pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline. This has a hundred percent chance of eradicating the risk for borreliosis in children and about seventy percent in adults. As with other vaccines, this recombinant vaccine can produce slight adverse side effects, but these are typically mild.


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