The devastating impact of a tick bite | BBC Global
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Each summer, thousands of Lyme disease cases occur across the US.
But experts say this year, the proliferation of ticks - the insects that carry and transmit the disease to humans - will increase as the planet warms.
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In the 80's I was deployed as a "foreign national soldier" (not a mercenary) into Mozambique (during the civil war) to help provide protection for all communities. It quickly became apparent that the insects there were larger than anything I had ever encountered before and that ticks were everywhere. Every evening after a patrol we would sit down and remove literally hundreds of ticks from our bodies. And then sleep on the ground overnight. We'd be out for a week or 2 without the possibility of bathing either ... Inevitably I got a serious disease. The medics thought I was malingering and sent me back out on patrol. 10 days later after passing out and falling a few times, during the patrol, and with black eyes to prove it, I got back to the medics. I was feeling 100% better than before. I asked them to just check my temperature. They did and it was still way over the top. I got casavacced out in a helicopter, instantly, to the nearest Military hospital and spent a week or 2 on drips and meds. To the bots and other commentators on this channel: I nearly died from this and you think a tick bite is a joke or just a conspiracy?
Tony how are you now? Did you get side effects from the tick bite years later? I have some health issues from tick bites.
It's same in Pakistan, the insects are jumbo sized. I mean, there are flies the size of golfballs. I'm not even exagerating. When i first saw it, i ran for the hills. Or ants, the ants are the size of half a thumb. Bees were like golf balls too. This was in secluded villages where i encountered this daily. Extremely big bugs, also beetles that literally looked like small toy cars. You can encounter some weird stuff when you visit secluded places on earth. It was a crazy experience and i've been there for 6 whole weeks. We were sleeping with salamanders on the ceilings and such, snakes everywhere etc.
I ran tests for Lyme antibodies privately in Europe, came out positive. Nobody had picked it up in Canada and I never saw a tick bite.
If the tick is still on you, try to put it in a plastic bag or cup with lid get it tested for Lyme disease. Or put it in the freezer to bring when doctor’s office is opened. Usually you’ll get a red bulls eye rash. A friend had that type. I didn’t get a rash but the tick tested for Lyme disease. I was given antibiotics.
First diagnosed in Lyme, Connecticut.
In secluded village in Pakistan they don't seem to exist lol. The people there don't know of their existence nor have i seen them myself. But the insects there are jumbo sized. I mean, there are flies the size of golfballs. I'm not even exagerating. When i first saw it, i ran for the hills. Or ants, the ants are the size of half a thumb. Bees were like golf balls too. This was in a secluded village where i encountered this daily. Extremely big bugs, like beetles that literally looked like small toy cars and squeeked when someone lifted them. You can encounter some weird stuff when you visit secluded places on earth. It was a crazy experience and i've been there for 6 whole weeks. We were sleeping with salamanders/reptiles on the ceilings and such, snakes everywhere etc. (Most of em not dangerous snakes). You'll have great stories to tell after such life experiences.
We had tick check before bedtime.
It's disgusting, horrible, I could barely watch it. How could someone have a ring in their nose?
yall blamin cLiMaTe cHaNgE insteadda it bein a bioweapon lmfaoooooooooo
Man-made
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@@Wayzor_ R u bot yourself?🤔
@Wayzor_ lyme disease wasn't a thing before the 90s....
Look at the stats for recorded cases through the years.
My mum, 77 now, grew up playing in fields and it wasn't an issue.....same fields are now a hazard for lyme disease.
@@elliotwilliams7421 wrong it's been around since the 50s but they weaponized it
This is an American colonial issue
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Idiotic comment. Got infected in 2009, didn't get treated for 18 months, got very ill. I haven't been at all well since, had to give up work and have to rest 18 hours a day minimum - from southern England. Borrelia bacteria was found in a tick encased in amber - the bacteria is several million years old.
lmfao its a short video about ticks but they had to squeeze in that polar bear on the ice clip lol my god
They mentioned global warming with melting ice caps. Its not exactly squeezed in is it mate?