disease from deer given to pets????

[killa-combo 142]

watched a vidio and they say deer can give pets a disease called lime or line disease. anyone know anything on this?

[Kay 3,709]

watched a vidio and they say deer can give pets a disease called lime or line disease. anyone know anything on this?

 

 

Lyme disease is contracted form infected ticks not deer ... humans are as much at risk if ticks arnt removed properly ..

[FightTheBan 1,147]

Its a disease passed on from ticks - there are three main diseases - lymes diseas, borreliosis and bartonelas (see bada.co.uk website for details).

They can be transmitted to pets and humans quite easily and are usually in the hosts system indefinately.

 

I know two gamekeepers with lymes disease and there fecked, and my springer had bartonellas - cost me two grand at the age of 17. She is cured now (fingers crossed) as i caught it in enough time - its fascinating that most vets know NOTHING about it, i had to get reverred to Glasgow vet school, hence the shit price.

 

Be very carefull when dealing with ticks is my advice.

 

FTB

Edited March 25, 2010 by FightTheBan

[waidmann 105]

not all tics carry borrilia(bacteria causing borreeliose) but some do,area concentrated,if its in your area you can get a vaccination i believe.

borrilia build up in your blood and can be counted on tests(they thought i had it when i suddenly got joint pain all over the place,turned out to be arthritis).

 

once you have it it can take avery long time to get rid of(if at all).

 

i think the term lymes disease is a collective for both but i'm not sure????

 

waidmann

[FightTheBan 1,147]

Lymes dissease is a vatiation, it is also common for one tick to be carrying more than one of the bacteria so victims usually have more than one disease.

Its a real nasty if anyone has had experience of it, the state my pup was in had to be seen to be believed.

 

FTB

[romany52 313]

I have heard of folk dying of lymes disease.

[killa-combo 142]

so how can you minimise the risk of disease, best way to remove the tick and so on???

[Flamin'Nora! 50]

click the link in kays sig or click here a very good site for info

 

http://www.bada-uk.org/