Lyme Disease Causes

Lyme Disease Causes
Spirochete is the name of the bacterium which is the main reason of causing Lyme disease. The main species of spirochete which causes Lyme disease is known as borrelia burgdorferi, this certain species of spirochete is found in ticks. Tick bites are the reason which causes Lyme disease in human body.

In United States ticks which carry the Lyme disease virus are commonly known as deer ticks as they are mostly found on deer bodies. These deer ticks are the adult form of ticks and their bites spreads the Lyme virus in the human body. More than half of the deer ticks contain the Lyme disease virus in their stomach. More than 200 ticks are found on the deer, deer carry ticks and provide them their blood so that they can live and lay their eggs on the deer's body. Deer is a common animal which comes in contact with most humans and this makes human face ticks. Deer is the largest mammal which feeds maximum number of ticks on them. Humans interact with deer's skin and tick mostly bites at that time.

Ticks get infected to this spirochete virus because they feed on other animal's blood. These virus travels from the animals body to the ticks stomach and then through bites it gets transferred to human body.

Ticks who bites different people are in the nymph state, this is the stage of ticks life which is between adulthood and larval. At this stage ticks are very small in size and they are hardly visible. Most of the Lyme disease patients don't remember that when they were bitten by a tick. As soon as the tick bites the human body Lyme virus starts entering the body and effects different organs and glands. Lyme virus is very dangerous and it causes different symptoms in specific areas.

Higher risk rate:

1. Anyone who comes in contact with ticks.

2. Children who age between 5 and 14.

3. Campers

4. Golfers.

5. People who spend their time in outdoor recreation

6. People who work on outdoors.

Medical studies have proved that peoples don't get infected to Lyme disease by food, air or water. There are different cases related to Lyme disease and this according to the research this disease affects severely to the peoples more than 70 years of age. Lyme disease is very much curable but the main problem is that many patients can't recognize this disease so they don't consult the doctors in the early stages.