{"id":11254,"date":"2014-07-08T15:55:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T20:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/?p=11254"},"modified":"2014-07-17T11:27:39","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T16:27:39","slug":"una-picadura-de-garrapata-puede-conllevar-dos-infecciones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/una-picadura-de-garrapata-puede-conllevar-dos-infecciones\/","title":{"rendered":"One Tick Bite Can Equal Two Infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/16-Una-picadura-de-garrapata-puede-conllevar-dos-infecciones.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11260\" src=\"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/16-Una-picadura-de-garrapata-puede-conllevar-dos-infecciones.png\" alt=\"16 Una picadura de garrapata puede conllevar dos infecciones\" width=\"196\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<b><span lang=\"EN-GB\">In New York state study, 1 in 10 of the bugs carried both Lyme disease and babesiosis<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">If you&#8217;re planning to spend quality time outdoors this summer, new research may give you another reason to guard against <b>ticks.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">In a New York state study, about one in 10 deer <b>ticks<\/b> were found to be harboring at least two harmful germs, and the tiny bloodsuckers could pass<b> both infections<\/b> to a human host through a single bite.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">&#8220;A third of <b>ticks <\/b>around here are infected with the <b>Lyme bacteria<\/b>, and about a third of those are infected with something else, too,&#8221; said <b>Felicia Keesing,<\/b> a<b> biology professor <\/b>at <b>Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y<\/b>. That means that about 10 percent of all<b> ticks<\/b> in her area carry not one but two potentially dangerous diseases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">&#8220;If you have been exposed to <b>Lyme disease<\/b>, there&#8217;s a one in three chance that you&#8217;ve been exposed to something else at the same time. Those are pretty high odds,&#8221; Keesing said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">She has been collecting and testing thousands of deer <b>ticks<\/b> in Dutchess County in upstate New York, an area that has a lot of <b>tick-borne<\/b> disease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Keesing was curious to know how many <b>ticks<\/b> have the potential to pass multiple infections at the same time. She found that<b> ticks<\/b> in that area are almost twice as likely as expected to carry two distinct germs &#8212; the bacteria that causes <b>Lyme disease<\/b> and a tiny parasite that infects red blood cells, causing a less common illness called <b>babesiosis.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Her study results were published recently in the journal<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">PLoS One.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">On its own, <b>babesiosis <\/b>usually causes few problems for healthy people, according to the U.S. <b>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/b>. But it can be life threatening to the elderly, or those who have compromised immune function.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">When<b> babesiosis<\/b> and <b>Lyme disease<\/b> strike together, however, experts say it tends to compound the symptoms of both infections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">&#8220;People who have both infections have more symptoms acutely than people who have Lyme disease alone,&#8221; explained <b>Dr. Peter Krause<\/b>, a senior research scientist at the <b>Yale School of Public Health<\/b> in New Haven, Conn. &#8220;They can experience headache, fever, chills, sweats, fatigue, muscle aches and pains &#8212; a lot of symptoms,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Krause has spent his career studying <b>babesiosis,<\/b> but he wasn&#8217;t involved in the current research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">It&#8217;s not known exactly how often people get two infections from a single<b> tick<\/b> bite because doctors don&#8217;t usually know to test for more than one problem. However, Krause conducted a study in 1996 in New England where he tested people with and without symptoms of <b>tick-borne<\/b> illness to try to capture the true rate of co-infection there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">&#8220;We found 240 had <b>Lyme disease,<\/b> [and] about 26 people had <b>Lyme <\/b>and <b>babesiosis,<\/b> so about 11 percent,&#8221; he said. That&#8217;s a rate that closely mirrors the rates of co-infection Keesing found in upstate N.Y. ticks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Both Krause and Keesing say that doctors that practice in areas where <b>tick-borne<\/b> illnesses are common need to be more aware of the problem of co-infection &#8212; especially if patients who come in with the symptoms of <b>Lyme disease<\/b> don&#8217;t respond to treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">&#8220;If people aren&#8217;t feeling better within a few days on antibiotics, then the doc has to think, &#8216;OK, I&#8217;m giving the antibiotic that&#8217;s probably getting rid of the <b>Lyme disease<\/b>, then there&#8217;s probably something else going on here.&#8217; And there are five other agents that can be transmitted by this <b>tick, <\/b>besides <b>Lyme disease<\/b>,&#8221; said Krause.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Common-sense measures can help prevent <b>tick-borne<\/b> infections in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Krause suggests avoiding places where the bugs like to live, such as wooded and grassy areas. He says avoidance is especially important for people who have weakened immune function.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">&#8220;If you&#8217;re in a wooded area, do <b>tick<\/b> checks. Wear long pants, a long-sleeved shirt, wear <b>tick <\/b>repellant,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">And lastly, if you do happen to spot a<b> tick<\/b> clinging to your skin, don&#8217;t freak out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">&#8220;Most people who are bitten by <b>ticks <\/b>aren&#8217;t going to develop <b>Lyme disease<\/b> or any of these other infections,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We know that only about 3 percent of people bitten by deer<b> ticks<\/b> get <b>Lyme disease<\/b>.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Just be sure to carefully remove the <b>tick<\/b> as soon as you find it, to help minimize any risk of infection, Krause said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">&#8220;If the<b> tick<\/b> is pulled off before 36 hours of attachment, you&#8217;re not going to get it,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/medlineplus\/spanish\/news\/fullstory_147162.html\" target=\"_blank\">www.nlm.nih.gov<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0In New York state study, 1 in 10 of the bugs carried both Lyme disease and babesiosis If you&#8217;re planning to spend quality time outdoors this summer, new research may give you another reason to guard against ticks. 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