Lyme disease! What have we learned? by Zac Askinasi (2022) https://padlet.com/zacaskinasi/1eoide39twc6f45l Made with an open mind en-us 2020-10-21 19:25:13 UTC 2023-11-28 04:47:11 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f52c.png Swedish dermatologist, Arvid Afzelius, wrote a report and article in a German journal about a woman who was bitten by a sheep tick having a rash that looked like it was spreading in concentric circles. He called this condition "Erythema Migrans," which means "spreading redness." zacaskinasi https://padlet.com/zacaskinasi/1eoide39twc6f45l/wish/858542028 1909]]> 2020-10-25 00:25:13 UTC https://padlet.com/zacaskinasi/1eoide39twc6f45l/wish/858542028 Swedish dermatologist, Sven Hellerstrom, reported a man showing a unusual red rash and meningitis. He then spent his time looking into this sort of thing. He eventually found that rashes spreading in concentric circles, along with meningitis, have been common in the Stockholm area. zacaskinasi https://padlet.com/zacaskinasi/1eoide39twc6f45l/wish/859833488 1930]]> 2020-10-25 20:40:05 UTC https://padlet.com/zacaskinasi/1eoide39twc6f45l/wish/859833488 Sven Hellerstrom travels to Cincinnati to give a talk at a medical conference about what he was working on. During said talk, he brought about the idea that the cause of the strange occurrence that he was looking into could have been caused by a spirochete. zacaskinasi https://padlet.com/zacaskinasi/1eoide39twc6f45l/wish/859879008 1949]]> 2020-10-25 21:27:56 UTC https://padlet.com/zacaskinasi/1eoide39twc6f45l/wish/859879008 Rudolph J. Scrimenti, a dermatologist in Milwaukee, made the first report of Erythema Migrans in the U.S.. In the report, he talked about the same idea that he had learned of when he had read in med school, Hellerstrom's idea that it could be caused by a spirochete. The patient he was examining was a physician who had been bitten in Wisconsin by. a tick while he was grouse hunting. zacaskinasi https://padlet.com/zacaskinasi/1eoide39twc6f45l/wish/859893723 1970]]> 2020-10-25 21:44:14 UTC https://padlet.com/zacaskinasi/1eoide39twc6f45l/wish/859893723 Doctors at the Yale school of medicine here about a cluster of cases of juvenile arthritis in Lyme, Connecticut. One of those doctors, Allen C. Steere, a fellow in the rheumatology division in his first year, recognized that an autoimmune condition like juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is not infectious therefore, it should not occur in clusters. a little after that, him and his colleagues began to refer to the syndrome as "Lyme Arthritis." zacaskinasi https://padlet.com/zacaskinasi/1eoide39twc6f45l/wish/860157166 1970ish]]> 2020-10-26 01:28:16 UTC https://padlet.com/zacaskinasi/1eoide39twc6f45l/wish/860157166 Joe Dowhan, a field biologist working in a body of woods east of Lyme, felt a painful nip which he had discovered to have been from a tick which he then put into a specimen jar. He had read about Allen Steere's work with the sort of symptoms he began to exhibit so he scheduled an appointment where he talked to Steere and gave him the specimen which was later identified as Ixodes scapularis, commonly known as the deer tick. zacaskinasi https://padlet.com/zacaskinasi/1eoide39twc6f45l/wish/860374806 1976]]> 2020-10-26 04:02:55 UTC https://padlet.com/zacaskinasi/1eoide39twc6f45l/wish/860374806 Willy Burgdorfer creates a way to determine whether or not a tick is carrying spirochetes by cutting off one of the legs and look at the fluid that leaks out under a microscope. He is far more well known for his discovery of the spirochete responsible for Lyme disease, Borrelia Burgdorferi. zacaskinasi https://padlet.com/zacaskinasi/1eoide39twc6f45l/wish/872087019 Early 1900s]]> 2020-10-29 04:07:56 UTC https://padlet.com/zacaskinasi/1eoide39twc6f45l/wish/872087019 Allen Steere and some others figure out that "Lyme Arthritis" is really just a infectious disease spread by ticks. zacaskinasi https://padlet.com/zacaskinasi/1eoide39twc6f45l/wish/872124121 1970s]]> 2020-10-29 04:45:23 UTC https://padlet.com/zacaskinasi/1eoide39twc6f45l/wish/872124121 Infectious Diseases Society of America shows their support of the idea of chronic Lyme disease not being real causing a antitrust investigation brought on by Richard Blumenthal, the then attorney general of Connecticut. zacaskinasi https://padlet.com/zacaskinasi/1eoide39twc6f45l/wish/872864068 2006]]> 2020-10-29 12:40:55 UTC https://padlet.com/zacaskinasi/1eoide39twc6f45l/wish/872864068