CDC & DoD investigating deadly disease threat posed by fast-multiplying exotic tick - Asian Longhorn Tick - CAUSES HUMAN HEMORRAGIC FEVER

The tick has been found in Arkansas, Connecticut, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, New Jersey, and West Virginia.

The Department of Defense is involved in the investigation including other federal agencies.

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These ticks have never before been found in the United States (US) and details on their introduction into New Jersey are still unknown.

H. longicornisis known to transmit the virus that causes severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTSV) to hu-
mans, a disease that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have categorized as an emerging hemorrhagic
fever.

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Has 30% kill rate in humans.



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Good thing it is winter..I'll worry about that in a few months :)

:ticks:

WEll, I'm not sure what West Virginia has done, but I think the US would be a whole lot better without those states, so why not just tick-nuke bomb it from orbit?

I fookin hate ticks. Got bit by a few lonestar ticks this past spring/summer and would have been pissed if I had developed an allergy to beef!

This one seems much worse though!

Isn't it strange though how new tick species always end up starting/found in New Jersey?

I've read a bit of what you post...got any inside knowledge or speculation as to why?

Did this one float over from plum island too?

Why are tick borne diseases not in the histories of the woodland Indians or colonialists in the northeast?

I am immune to ticks, I used to pick them up when I saw them, and lay them on my arm. They always jumped off. One time when I placed a tick on my arm, he shot a silk from his ass and caught a ride on the breeze, lol. It was pretty cool.

Come to the northeast. You’ll wonder why you’re not immune anymore

I know a lot of formerly outdoorsy active people that are suffering with symptoms of lyme disease. Ticks are nasty, might as well stay indoors

Long unicorn tick

You asking me if someone is researching mutated tick species and decided to test them out on the public?

I couldn't say for sure. The hard science research I was a fly on the wall for was more about immunology and radiation. The majority of the rest vaguely fell under social sciences.

Although...

I will say this:

A good chunk of DoD-contract research labs are indeed in that region.

I've definitely seen local populations used for research.

When it comes to how well-sealed they keep a portion of their research, the answer is badly. I visited the rabies lab they have out on Plum Island (NY) and those animals were actually getting outdoor kennel time. Yes, it's humane. Yes, the way it was built limited the chance of anyone walking by getting attacked. But, any dumb squirrel could have gotten in with those dogs in under 5 seconds. And if they had fleas, those things would have spread all over the island. The kennels were right up next to a dirt path.

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Interesting thought about Plum Island.

Access to the island is controlled by the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Yah know what kills ticks?

DDT. Thats right. DD muthafkn T.

They need to make this legal again for a 2 or 3 year period- nuke the whole US and kill ALL the ticks and bedbugs too!

Thank you for your input.

I'm not originally from Fort Knox, but live here now. The people who grew up here tell me they know they were researched on back in the 50s and 60s with LSD. Children were getting sick from making ice cream from snow. A lot of people believe this.

I told those people that this was going to happen...by 2020 too.



Pretty land and the mcmansion people are just waiting for hillbilly extinction is why

I'm not a big fan of chemicals, but if it works, it needs to be done.

Illnesses from mosquito, tick and flea bites more than tripled in the United States from 2004 to 2016, according to the CDC.

and that doesn't even include bedbugs.

Come to Wisconsin .... :))) our woods are full of this shit. Our state bird is the mosquito..

stevia kills lyme

Japan used fleas carrying the black plague as a biological weapon against mainland China before WWII. Whose to say someone from the Far East isn't trying to do the same by a similar means...

The longhorn tick has been known to be infected with Rickettsia, Borrelia, Ehrlichia, Anaplasma, and Theileria species, as well as Heartland and Powassan viruses. The tick has also been linked to severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus, which causes hemorrhagic fever.

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just nuke bomb my ass. Better than dying from any of those diseases for their Agenda 21/2030 plan.

yep. this^

No problem.

They may be right.
There were talks about micro-dosing NYC back in the day. For a while I tried to keep up with data on any spikes in still-births/spontaneous abortions to see if it had been done.
(LSD causes uterine contractions, so if pregnant women were ingesting it, there would be reason to see a spike in problems of that nature)

Perhaps these releases are actually foreign terrorist attacks and they release them in states with high levels of federal government employees and military working.

It lives, feeds, and reproduces through the winter too.

Is this the part where everyone acts like they don't know what's going on?