Babesiosis on ABC World News

[mdmom]

Funny....they are calling it a "new disease" carried by ticks. The news clip gives practically no information about Babesia, but I was glad to see that the word is getting out about one of the TBI co-infections of Lyme.

 

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/infectious-disease-ticks-13898071

[smartyjones]

awesome comment from the Yale dr -- "it's the tick that you don't see rather than the tick that you do see that generally causes these diseases"

Edited June 22, 2011 by smartyjones

[Bill]

Still ticked me off. "Unlike lyme disease which presents with a tell tale rash, an expanding red rash...."

[tpotter]

Thank you for sharing this. It's really good.

[tpotter]

Thank you for sharing this. It's really good.