Ticks and tick-borne diseases in the city: Role of landscape connectivity and green space characteristics in a metropolitan area

by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969719312276?via%3Dihub Comment; Traditionally we think of “green spaces” as being healthy for people–maybe not! This is a novel perspective showing that other considerations need to be made....

Counterattacking the tick bite: towards a rational design of anti-tick vaccines targeting pathogen transmission

by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections

https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-019-3468-x Comment; The quest for a vaccine is ongoing. So many targets–’till the mutations happen–which is often, like trying to hit a submicroscopic moving target...

It felt like the flu. It took 10 doctors, a year, and $60,000 to get an answer.

by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/6/18/18677511/lyme-disease-diagnosis-health Comment; Sad that these folks ended up seeing so many Lyme-illiterate physicians and suffered for so long. Eye-opener!

Deer tick established in eastern Nebraska for first time; Lyme disease could follow

by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections

https://www.omaha.com/livewellnebraska/health/deer-tick-established-in-eastern-nebraska-for-first-time-lyme/article_de40f384-8690-5163-ac8d-2670d30c1a6d.html Comment; Disease risk continuing it’s spread. Pestilence and disease with an ever-increasing risk to...

Prevalence and Genetic Characterization of Deer Tick Virus (Powassan Virus, Lineage II) in Ixodes scapularis Ticks Collected in Maine

by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections

http://www.ajtmh.org/content/journals/10.4269/ajtmh.19-0281 Comment; Interesting that there doesn’t seem to be much genetic drift. This may go with the premise that some of these agents may have been weaponized relatively recently by the Dept. of Defense....

The Ecology of New Constituents of the Tick Virome and Their Relevance to Public Health

by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections

https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/11/6/529 Comment; I’ve known that Ticks & Borrelia carry pathogens, had no idea there were so many viruses and the intricacies of geographic distribution. More to follow. Kurt J. Vandegrift 1  andAmit...

Professor J.W Cohen Tervaert, one of the most powerful speeches to the FDA on breast implants and the dangers.

by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine

https://www.getarmystrong.com/home/2019/3/29/professor-jw-cohen-tervaert-one-of-the-most-powerful-speeches-on-breast-implants-and-the-dangers Comment; Excellent presentation on Autoimmune Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants (ASIA) with silicone acting as an adjuvant to...

Is It Possible to Make a Correct Diagnosis of Lyme Disease on Symptoms Alone? Review of Key Issues and Public Health Implications

by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections

https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(19)30331-6/abstract Comment; Interesting. Initially lab results were recommended to confirm strong clinical suspicion of Lyme, with the realization that many lab results are false-negative. Now labs are...

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE A “LYME LITERATE” DOCTOR?

by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections

http://danielcameronmd.com/what-does-it-take-to-be-a-lyme-literate-doctor/ Comment; A good review of what a “Lyme Literate” practitioner is likely to encounter and should be familiar with. “A physician who is board certified in the specialty of infectious...

A case of diagnosis of Lyme disease in the absence of a tick bite

by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections

https://www.pediatr-neonatol.com/article/S1875-9572(19)30245-1/fulltext Comment; Intersting, was there a bite that was missed/not recognized–probably. Could this be a non-bite transmission? Possibly.

Bacterial microbiomes of Ixodes scapularis ticks collected from Massachusetts and Texas, USA

by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections

https://bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12866-019-1514-7 Comment; We’re digging deep. Looking into what species live in the GI tract of the ticks, finding that the differences are more based on sex than geography in specimens collected in TX...

Rash, Radiculopathy, and Cognitive Biases

by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections

https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asma/amhp/2019/00000090/00000007/art00012;jsessionid=40226hmkdihog.x-ic-live-03 Comment; It’s not surprising that tick-borne illnesses are missed. Spirochetes can have so many different presentations in disease–not to...