Why are ticks so important in the study medicine and cures.?
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I'm a graduate of Biology. We didn't dwell on ticks. You say ticks are so important, so as almost every biological being. Scientists devote their time and life to specific beings--some to rats, some to seaweeds, some to ginger. In any case, it's because they find some interesting substance that would be of good value.\n\nI haven't done any reading on ticks. But their value in the study of medicine might be related to their biological metabolisms, reproductive cycles and parasitic nature.\n\nBtw, i read your answer to a bipolar disorder question. What did you mean when you said that a person wants or was it wait to become manic again? Email me. Thanks.
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It's a tradition as old as time itself.A tick just means good.It's a subconscious thing as you said earlier.I think our brains paint diagrams in our mind to represent our thoughts.So I guess a tick is a YES.
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Yersinia pestis is a bacteria that lives on ticks that usually live on rats. This bacteria can cause the illness known as the Plague - Pneumonic, Septicemic, or Bubonic when it is transmitted through tick bites.
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They have the potential to cure over 75 different diseases for you, the baby or your family. They can be 'banked' as they call it, and kept for when they are needed to cure a disease
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If you took your meds the way your were supposed to, you may just have a side effect to the bite. I am a Wellness Consultant and am interested in what kind of tick bit you and what the meds were for. Just an infection or something more specific. I do believe there are things you can do to help you with the pain and be able to get back to your normal self. If you would like more help just email me at wellnesshomeexpert@yahoo.com
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Lyme disease is an infection that derives from a tick bite. The disease has a variety of symptoms, including changes affecting the skin, heart, joints and nervous system. It is also known as borrelia or borreliosis.
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When we have mild winters, the ticks do not get killed off and therefore begin to flourish.  Nasty little things.  \n\nI recently learned this by reading an article about ticks.  Yes, there are more ticks now.  Global warming.
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The Best Way to Remove a Tick\nThe possibility of tick-borne illnesses gives a sense of urgency to the topic. In chat here at DrGreene.com, a mother asked me about the best method for getting ticks off our kids (and animals). People in the room had heard of many methods: applying rubbing alcohol, smothering with Vaseline, painting with fingernail polish, twisting clockwise (or counterclockwise), and touching with a hot match. Though these methods are popular, they are not the best. Use tweezers to grasp the tick as near to the mouthparts (and as close to the skin) as possible. Use gentle, steady, straight force to pull the tick out. The site should then be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected with alcohol or another disinfectant. \n\nThe tick can be killed by soaking in rubbing alcohol or flushing down the toilet (it should not be crushed or squeezed). Hands should be washed afterwards. Check with your local health department to see if they want the tick for monitoring purposes. \nhttp://www.drgreene.com/21_392.html\nhttp://www.rdoctor.com\nhttp://www.symptomat.com\nhttp://www.kavokin.com\nhttp://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/696_flea.html \nhttp://www.healthsquare.com/mc/fgmc1408.htm\nPrompt and complete removal of ticks does help prevent illness. This is a situation where the folk remedies can do more harm than good.  \n\nAlan Greene MD FAAP  \n \nJune 01, 2001  \n \nClick here to read yesterday's Daily Dose of Dr. Greene.
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www.stopticks.org\n\nThis has a whole section on what to do to prevent ticks on people.
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Medical studies discovered pretty much all vaccines.  Psychological studies help treat people with disorders. Medicine in general is a big one. \nChemists have figured out how to wipe out grease from our dishes and how to use it in our automobiles.  Facial products from cleansers to moisturizers.  Even some things we eat have been developed by chemists.\nIt really depends on what brach of science you are looking at, but every branch has something to offer to society.
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depends...i guess you could say it's really important since biology is all about how you and everything else stays alive.  But then, most people won't use it except to answer along with people on game shows.  Others will use it if they're doctors, nurses, science teachers, paleontologists, scientists, some military personel, etc.\n\nGuess it just depends!
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It is a strong antibiotic used to treat bacterial problems, STDs, and even acne,infections of the skin, bone, stomach, respiratory tract, sinuses, ear, and urinary tract. It also treats Lyme disease.
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The human body has every thing it needs to kill any bacteria and virus.  Like Lyme or MS.  We have the cellular power to kill the bad pathogens.  \nHere is a website of some one who has signed testimony of his success in this.
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They say that the top of the list of phobias consists of two major fears, which most people have had at least once in their life: Necrophobia and Glossophobia; fear of death and fear of public speaking.\n\nMake room for one more and add Agliophobia to that list.\n\nThe majority of people in our world today have a generally low threshhold for pain and suffering. Whether that is caused by medicine is debatable--the reasons are many, one of which being the general sense of self-preservation that exists in most human beings. But you see the result. Most of us, at least in developed countries, are addicted to our cushy, illness and disease-free, symptom-free lifestyles. Look how much it throws us off when we get sick for any particular reason.\n\nYeah, we're addicted. We're dependant on our drug-store-trip solutions. Headache? Asprin. Fever, cold, flu? Dayquil or Nyquil (Look! You have a choice as to whether or not you konk out after taking it. Cool, huh?). Cough, stuffy nose? Mucinex. Cramps? Ibuprofen. ...And stay out of the water till you're cramp-free. And oh yeah, let's not forget the vitamins, the fifteen-million pills people end up taking as they grow older, the vitamin-C-plus-other-nutrients tablets to stave off colds and such... You get the picture.\n\nWe're so dependant and expectant of them that it's unsafe. People take antibiotics thinking it's a cure-all, then they don't take enough or stop taking them and end up making super-bugs, results of the bacteria recovering from the antibiotic invasion and "learning" to overcome it.\n\nOf course they're useful. Why else would new ones be "invented" so often? Oh yeah, the whole money thing... Ahem, well, enough about that. Some of these things ARE pretty dang useful. Take that antibiotic that some idiot stopped taking before he was supposed to, and you potentially have a cure for bubonic plague (yes, bubonic plague still exists, in case anyone had any doubts). That is, depending on the pill. Those medicines have saved countless lives. And even the ones that don't save lives are pretty great. I had a test today and wouldn't have been able to take it if not for the cold pills I'd brought with me.\n\nOf course when one pill leads to another symptom leads to another pill leads to another symptom, it's getting out of hand. And so many people have lived without taking pills in their entire life, so why shouldn't we? Really, why not? One can honestly withstand certain pains, and not everyone needs the extra years that supplements provide. And I probably could have taken that test regardless, even if it required suffering and hacking up a lung while doing so.\n\nAs you can see, the world of medicine caters to our fears. Vitamins, antioxidants, supplements--all work to extend our lives, to at least postpone death. Painkillers, antidepressants, allergy medications--they try to take away the "pain and suffering" part.\n\nNow if they could just get the public speaking part down...
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modern medicine the reasons are obvious
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In the main, they are an attempt to bridge the gap between human social structures / lmitations and the reality of epidemiology. Nations, religious arrangments, economic regimes, cultural patterns, linguistic groupings, etc are due to historical developments, resource availability, trade route patterns, etc. None of these has any congruity with disease spread patterns, save perhaps the trade route business. \n\n================\nhistorically known background\n\nIn the past, disease traveled to some extent along trade routes. A famous example is bubonic plague ("the black plague"), which was once limited to the NE Asian steppes as a disease of small rodents which sometimes affected humans. For the first time in history, the Mongol armies traveled fast enough that an infected human had a good enough chance to spread the bacterium to a new population on the borders of its range. It traveled West with them in stages all the way to Europe where it encountered a large immunologically naive poulation with the well-known, if poorly understood in any detail, result. 30-60% mortality throughout Europe and a depopulation which had serious religious, political, and economic effects for some centuries. In fact, that bacterium's spread has continued via human agency into very recent times. It arrived in North America aboard a ship from China in the 1880s (some researchers think they can even identify the very ship!) and is now epidemic among small rodents and their fleas in much of Western North America. Syphilis most likely originated in the New World and was carried back to Europe by Columbus' crew as it first appears there around 1500 as an acute fulminating disease (think 'flesh-eating bactria', not the chronic infection of today) during a military campaign in northern Italy by the French.\n=============\npublic health tasks \n\nPublic health agencies attempt to intervene in the chain of transmission of disease by developing standards for sanitation, by financing research and development of vaccines and treatments of common diseases (eg, yellow fever in connection with building the Panama Canal), by developing an recommending screening protocols for detecting the contagious who are traveling or shipping internationally, by advocating effective standards of treatment across differing medical regimes, etc. It was a pioneering public health investigation (by Snow) which identified the transmission path of cholera a generation+ before Pasteur and any real understanding of the actual causative agent. Any society taking those results seriously effectively cured its cholera problem forthwith. \n\nInternational public health agencies attempt to do much the same, bridging national boundaries in an attempt to match the disregard for those boundaries of diseases and their vectors (eg, insects, ticks, ...).\n\n===============\nexamples of large scale efforts \n\nA gloriously successful example is the eradication of the ghastly disease smallpox from the world (save as samples held in government labs in the US and i Russia). Smallpox was unusually susceptible to attack as it infected only humans, was readily identifiable in a few days after infection, had an effective vaccine (the very first in Western medicine, in fact), and had a short course, after which the victim was either dead (about 30%) or immune to further infection. A joint effort by public health authorities world wide progrssively broke transmission chains and finally isolated and quarantined the last known infected human in Somalia. Polio is a similar disease and an attempt to similarly eradicate it is underway; a couple of years ago, it was confined to a district in Western Africa and looked to be seriously in trouble. Religious political objections, primarily in northern Nigeria, put the campaign back quite a lot, and polio is now significatntly present in several of the contiguous countries. \n\nNot all disease have characteristics which make such attacks po
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the sad thing is ticks arent that big of a problem, weve just blown it up unrealistic proportions. lime disease is about as deadly as the common flu, and easier to spot. sure it makes life harder for a while and it needs to be treated but if you start to get a target shaped mark on your body head into the doctors. my friend had it and he's fine. and if your saying it was a baby because it was small and red, it probably was a deer tick (the most common carrier of the virus) but dont get worried