Hey MinuteEarth, you missed something! There is a Lyme Disease vaccine, not just for dogs it works on humans too. Production stopped because there wasn't enough call for it at the time making it to expensive to produce. Do you think it will be brought back now that the disease is more widespread?
Beat me to the punch Queen Ampharos. My understanding was liability discouraged people from continuing to produce and give the vaccine (not sure what the effective rate of the vaccine was for humans, but if mouse carry the disease, than herd immunity is likely not a goal, so it would have to be an individual to individual decision). I am surprised there hasn't been more discussion of the vaccine, but there are other tick born illnesses that are becoming problematic, so making sure that there are predators that eat ticks, as well as predators that control any carrier populations seem like a wise move. I am thinking particularly of the Alpha-Gal symptoms caused by Lonestar tick bites.
There was also some (unfounded) concern that it might cause arthritis and it happened at the same time as the fraudulent MMR/ autism claims so that tanked demand even further. The manufacturer was getting lawsuits on a product that wasn't a big money-spinner anyway so they withdrew it. The patent has expired now so it would be cheap to bring it back.
www.healthline.com/health-news/how-vaccine-fears-helped-kill-the-lyme-disease-vaccine#8 It looks like a French company is trying a relaunch, with a slight difference formula. They'll just past trials. The previous one could be up to 90% affective, so it looks good. It's just a shame that the first was taken off the market, as it delays all further treatment options.
@@notdaveschannel9843 I wouldn't go so far as to say it would be cheap. What it means is that any company that saw value in the vaccine could go through the work of getting approval for them to make a 'generic' version of the vaccine. This would be a lengthy and somewhat costly enterprise (though not as much as whipping it up from scratch). Cheapest would be for the former maker (or whomever owns that division now) to return to production, though I am guessing that you would need to sell a heck of a lot of units to make even that payoff. Lets say, 2-3 million, depending on what they feel they could charge for it or what insurance companies would reimburse. Of course the more they think they can sell the lower the price they would 'need' to charge.
1:30 we should have supported for Tom all this time instead of Jerry. And pikachu should have been allowed to evolve to a raichu. We’ve chosen the wrong side twice and history will condemn us for it.
I'm from CT and have had to deal with Lyme disease prevention my whole life. I have some tips for avoiding ticks. 1) Don't go into tall grass! Ticks love tall grasses. They can hide from things that want to eat them and munch on the grass itself. 2) If you go into a woodsy area, check your arms, legs, and neck immediately after for small bugs. The deer ticks that carry lime are about the size of a poppy seed, or 2 - 3 mm (.078 to .137 inches) 3) Once you get home, you need to check your whole body in a mirror. Ticks look like small sunspots or freckles. Make sure new freckles aren't actually bugs. 4) A surprising fact, it doesn't hurt when bitten! Ticks numb the site to get a quick meal. Once the numbing wears off, they usually jump off of you, and it feels like you were bitten. Check the spot. If it's red, keep a close eye on it. If you start getting fatigued, joint/muscle pain, or fever, go to a doctor and say you may have Lyme Disease. Have fun in forests!
@@blank2588 Vaccines are about triggering the Memory function of the Immune System. As such they work with Bacteria as well as Viruses, just in slightly different ways. And really anything else the Immune System can remember and we can get it to remember (without to many side effects). What you think about is Antivral Drugs vs Antibiotics, wich are for *treating* the Infection. Vaccines are usually about *preventing* the disesaes from getting serious. But a few are also used in Treatments for reasons you have to ask a doctor about.
1:32 who on earth thought it was a good idea to draw the Canadian flag like that (Edit: lol I hope that didn’t sound too accusatory this channel is fantastic)
@@fabulousdolphin4221 It's not as bad, most Chinese return after getting their education and the older folks can't adjust to the new reality whatsoever so they go back as well x) Not to mention that CCP's control of their citizens on student visas is actually even stronger when they're abroad (mostly because they're in a "hostile environment" full of "subversive propaganda" XD)
thank you so much minute earth for talking about this! As a current Lyme sufferer in treatment its really comforting to see the surge in the publicity of Lyme as a disease. Especially coming from a channel near to my heart
I saw literally twenty doctors and spend a week in hospital before they discovered I had Lyme's. Then I was cured with just a simple antibiotics cure. It was my third one by then because of all the misdiagnoses, but Lyme has a different kind of antibiotics. This was about three years ago, so I hoped the doctors have become better at identifying Lyme's in the mean time. I somehow doubt it. Probably only very few of the 20 doctors got informed about the final diagnosis. I was lucky it was early phase. Lyme's ruins lives.
I live 20 minutes from Lyme, CT and I just pulled a deer tick off of my neck after hiking with my dog yesterday. It’s not the first tick I’ve removed and it won’t be the last. Around here they’re so common, the best thing to do is to check yourself after being outside and to remove them promptly by gently pulling from the base. If they’re not attached for long you’re unlikely to be infected. So don’t panic about Lyme disease, just take precautions and be safe as you would with any disease :)
People don't believe that Lyme disease exists here, so there are very very few doctors who are willing to diagnose it and help you with treatment. My mom discovered she had Lyme a few years ago (over 20 years of her not knowing!). She was lucky to find a doctor who acknowledges its existence. I hope we can solve this disease.
Had a classmate in middleschool in a Portland/Gresham Oregon school get Lyme disease, she was out of class for a really long time, a couple months. She told us that the doctors refused to believe she had anything and told her she was faking it or it was all in her head.
I can't believe how fast this has moved from a new scary but rare disease to watch for while camping to a thing that destroyed the livelihood of relatives and many others. It was in the public eye in the 80s, and only 20ish years later it's seemingly all over. Rats are a terrifying carrier.
And Mickey in Florida too - How come MinuteEarth gets a free-pass when it comes to copyright/trademark strikes from Di$ney and/or WB? (I'm happy that they do..)
I live in Connecticut and quite close to Lyme and my neighbor (who’s an older man) was one of the first cases of Lyme in CT. He has lived in that house his whole life, he got Lyme in that yard. Help me
Some helpful advice the video left out. If you are bitten by a tick, get a nurse to remove it (or do it yourself) and save it. The tick can be sent for testing to see if the tick has Lyme disease. If it tests positive you can get shots or something to keep the infection from taking hold of you.
Lyme disease has destroyed my life. It’s a “snowflake” disease- no two people have the same symptoms or treatment needs (MS is like this too). Symptoms can include depression, inability to walk, amnesia, schizophrenia, brain fog, and extreme lethargy. There are hundreds more symptoms. If you think you’ve been exposed, get tested for common borrelia coinfections: babesia, bartonella, erlichea, etc.
I've been right there with you, for a little over two years my local doctor diagnosed me with chronic fatigue from my symptoms of general lethargy and brain fog and simply told me to wait it out. It wasn't until almost three years in we found a Lyme expert who from moment one of walking into his office told me to hold my arms out straight. My arms were shaking like a leaf and he said ya that's one of his big tells for Lyme. About a year of treatment and I'm finally getting back on my feet. It's absolute hell but you can do it, the medicine and expertise are out there it's just getting you to them.
Nick C Like Raf has said, you might have something other than Lyme disease. I suspect that you have already done a lot of research but I do recommend that you follow his advise and look into fatigue related diseases. There are also plenty of other rare diseases. Try to look up how many of them match up with your symptoms.
Raf Naegels hi Raf, that’s a common misconception. I for one have taken every antibiotic under the sun and still have positive tests for borrelia. CFS has become a label used to discount the symptoms of people who haven’t been accurately diagnosed by existing test methods.
@@nickc3657 That's rough I've had it 9 years ago as well, but mine was hot and fast. I had extreme pain in my knees and a fever of 105. I was fortunate as it seems to be gone after a round of antibiotics. Though some things I deal with still I believe are a result of it. For example a lot of perfumes, air fresheners, cleaners and such give me a massive head ache. I didn't have this problem before I had Lyme and it started right after. That never got better.
For those of you who keep saying they had insufficient interest in the Lymerix vaccine, what ACTUALLY happened is that those who got the vaccine, many developed the same symptoms of Lyme long-term and then tested positive for Lyme. I have a friend who was one of these people. This is why the vaccine was discontinued. It was a total failure and literally cost some people their lives. I have Lyme, as well, and my advice to you is to not encourage the idea of another disastrous vaccine, but rather educate people on the importance of prevention. Also, educating doctors in their knowledge and treatment of this often complex and chronic illness is another desperately needed step in the right direction. Insurance companies should also be forced to cover Lyme treatment and states should not exclude IV antibiotics for possible treatment as this is one of the many reasons why some develop a long-term debilitating infection.
I thought the same thing. However this (gene editing a large population) is the "last resort" of preventing a disease. We actually *have* a vaccine, but Anti-Vaxers got it pulled: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease#Vaccination it is also not quite as deadly as Malaria, so it is far from that criticial.
Good luck genetically editing tens of millions of wild mice or billions of ticks. Mosquitoes are easy because they breed in a few easily controllable spots, not all over in every single random place they can find...
@@KuK137 It does not need to be all of them. Indeed a 95% quoate is usually enough for herd-immunity to kick in. And as long as it is evolutionary beneficial, selection presure will deal with it.
In the US, the problem is the closure of farms near urban areas. These farms used to serve as a barrier between cites and nature but increased mechanization has led to bigger farms in areas unbroken by roads and utilities. The older smaller farms, now abandoned, revert to wild and critters scamper right up to the suburbs and beyond.
Lyme disease is a worldwide epidemic, and all of the US is affected by it, not just northern states. I'm from Florida, got bit by a tick, and very sick from it ever since, plus co infections to boot, Babesia, and Erlichia to name a couple. What's worse I got bit by something again since I was tested, and took pics, because I didn't know much about Lyme at the time, I assumed the bite was a spider bite, since friends said that's what it probably was, until I showed my doc who said it looked like a tick bite, so now I have to be retested, as since that bite, my lymph nodes have had so much pain and problems, and very stiff neck. I have a constant high white blood cell count, and I'm anemic, this all added to the health problems including huge neuro problems I've already been having previously from my first tick bite. Lyme is a very very serious worldwide concern, even a few cases found in Egypt, and I know Australia has some huge problems of it there according to what I've read and seen.
I found the Easter eggs in this video Pikachu - behind the Mice in 1:10 Olaf the snowman - can be seen in the image of North America in 1:20 Jerry the Mouse - can be seen holding a tick in 1:30 Thank me later
I got lymes in Ireland in 2018 was hospitlised for a month, I was paralysed on the left hand side of my body for 4 months, it's 2020 now and i still have severe fatigue brain fog and memory loss, but I'm getting there slowly but surely. Best advice I can give to anyone interested is to take precautions when you're outdoors, cover up, wear bright coloured clothing and use insect repellant (deets). Always check yourself after being outdoors.
i appreciate your optimism when it comes to truly terrifying things like climate change that these are all problems that we can and will eventually solve its honestly refreshing hearing that we can solve these issues and not just the planets on fire and there is nothing we can do about it but lay down and die
You should always check yourself for ticks after going outside in wooded areas. To contract Lyme disease the tick needs to bite you for 48-72 hours, act often and quickly! I'm a research assistant for a professor writing papers on Lyme disease on how to solve the Lyme disease problem.
I read about 8 hours (nymph stadium) to 24 (adult tick) hours, until they inject the borellia. Do you know of a an authoritative source for the latest facts of this?
Man, your science videos are really good! The sponsor ads are the only not good thing in the video though. But besides that, the rest is incredibly educational and inspirational! Hopefully someone working for the government will see these videos and put those ideas to the big guy's heads.
The problem on our island is not mice, but deer. They are also not good at grooming away ticks, and we have so many deer that you can not step on a piece of grass without having to check for ticks. I found a baby hedgehog once that was dehydrated and dying because of all the ticks it had :-(
Another reason ticks are now thriving in the northeastern United States Imports of Canada, also related to climate change, it because the winters I'm not as cold as they used to be and below freezing temperatures are not lasting as long as they used to be. It's common now for Winters and Pennsylvania, for example, to be broken up by multiple thaws and abnormally warm periods, instead of temperatures staying cold all winter long. This allows ticks to more easily survive our winters.
I live in Canada and know someone who has lyme disease, well, I haven't talked much if at all to them but I I've seen them, know people who know them, know of their existence and go to the same school as them. 1:31 That's not how Canada's flag looks. The red lines should be on the side. Great video anyways, I do enjoy this channel.
First the Koala Chlamydia ward, now studying disease carried by ticks. Man, John Oliver is really putting a lot of effort into his backup STEM carrier.
Dear ME! I live in the UK, and puns are part of my daily news consumption. Every time I read or hear one, I die a little inside. Please don't waste my life away! 😢
There was a vaccine that was discontinued because anti-vaxxers scared away potential customers. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-minute-will-there-be-a-lyme-disease-vaccine-for-humans/
@@ketsi3079 But so is lyme. There's always a benefit-harm estimation which apparently wasn't too favorable for the vaccine. It's the same reason why the general public isn't vaccinated against rabies because the vaccine is quite expensive and rabies is exeedingly rare.
If I remember right, rats are pretty good at grooming. Rats actively kill mice for my knowledge. Does it mean feral city rats have some king of advantage to us after all (even if smaller than fully carnivorous animals)?
My dad got Lyme while working in Old Lyme, CT (next door to Lyme proper) in 1988. Took a few years to get diagnosed or treated, at which point it'd already done a lot of damage...and the high-dose rounds of antibiotics made him allergic to them, too.
Correction because I am passionate about opossums: The study conducted to see how many ticks oppossums consume bassically put a bunch of ticks in a cage with the opossum and counted how much was left after a while. The study did not check the opossum for ticks and recreated studies make the results a little worse. Also Opossums are not immune to ticks because they eat them too fast. That is absurd. They are immune because of their body temprature, the same reason they are immune to rabies.
This videos doesn't do enough to show just how devastating untreated lyme disease can be! It is shocking how bad it can be and how much people are suffering. Not the right tone for such an important video.
Really have to be careful with the chemicals. Aren't an overuse of pesticides responsible for the ongoing collapse of insect populations (including pollinators)?
It's in the clip: because 90% mice are infected, there is a much higher chance of ticks picking up the bacteria from mice. Because mice are becoming much more numerous, that means more mice are getting bitten by ticks, picking up the bacteria and then passing it on to humans.
@@FNHotYes and yes. A much higher number of ticks with a chance of having the bacteria in the first place, due to sheer numbers of infected rodents to pick it up from, who picked it up from ticks etc. like a vicious circle.
We drew the Canadian flag incorrectly. Our sincere apologies to all our Canadian viewers (and our Canadian team members). Sorry!
MinuteEarth Said like a true Canadian!
No worries
It's okay. It's only a imaginary country anyways
Sorry for having a hard to draw flag. Real sorry about it. Sorry.
I'm sorry that happened too.. Our flag is kind of hard to draw. Our fault!
Hey MinuteEarth, you missed something! There is a Lyme Disease vaccine, not just for dogs it works on humans too. Production stopped because there wasn't enough call for it at the time making it to expensive to produce.
Do you think it will be brought back now that the disease is more widespread?
Beat me to the punch Queen Ampharos.
My understanding was liability discouraged people from continuing to produce and give the vaccine (not sure what the effective rate of the vaccine was for humans, but if mouse carry the disease, than herd immunity is likely not a goal, so it would have to be an individual to individual decision).
I am surprised there hasn't been more discussion of the vaccine, but there are other tick born illnesses that are becoming problematic, so making sure that there are predators that eat ticks, as well as predators that control any carrier populations seem like a wise move. I am thinking particularly of the Alpha-Gal symptoms caused by Lonestar tick bites.
There was also some (unfounded) concern that it might cause arthritis and it happened at the same time as the fraudulent MMR/ autism claims so that tanked demand even further. The manufacturer was getting lawsuits on a product that wasn't a big money-spinner anyway so they withdrew it.
The patent has expired now so it would be cheap to bring it back.
www.healthline.com/health-news/how-vaccine-fears-helped-kill-the-lyme-disease-vaccine#8
It looks like a French company is trying a relaunch, with a slight difference formula. They'll just past trials.
The previous one could be up to 90% affective, so it looks good.
It's just a shame that the first was taken off the market, as it delays all further treatment options.
@@notdaveschannel9843 I wouldn't go so far as to say it would be cheap.
What it means is that any company that saw value in the vaccine could go through the work of getting approval for them to make a 'generic' version of the vaccine. This would be a lengthy and somewhat costly enterprise (though not as much as whipping it up from scratch).
Cheapest would be for the former maker (or whomever owns that division now) to return to production, though I am guessing that you would need to sell a heck of a lot of units to make even that payoff. Lets say, 2-3 million, depending on what they feel they could charge for it or what insurance companies would reimburse. Of course the more they think they can sell the lower the price they would 'need' to charge.
@@JAClary I didn't realise you needed approval to produce a generic once the patent expires.
1:30 we should have supported for Tom all this time instead of Jerry.
And pikachu should have been allowed to evolve to a raichu.
We’ve chosen the wrong side twice and history will condemn us for it.
I always knew Jerry would come back and bite us in the ass.....
He was always gonna rat us out..
Kartik Panickar he ratted on us... the rat
"The friendly rat
told the cat
'Shut your trap!'"
I may be paraphrasing.
That's not Pikachu.
It's yellow Strange electric mouse! OK!?
oh and Raichu is not raichu
It's *Brownish Orange Tan Strange electric wired mouse.*
:3
XD
I'm from CT and have had to deal with Lyme disease prevention my whole life. I have some tips for avoiding ticks.
1) Don't go into tall grass! Ticks love tall grasses. They can hide from things that want to eat them and munch on the grass itself.
2) If you go into a woodsy area, check your arms, legs, and neck immediately after for small bugs. The deer ticks that carry lime are about the size of a poppy seed, or 2 - 3 mm (.078 to .137 inches)
3) Once you get home, you need to check your whole body in a mirror. Ticks look like small sunspots or freckles. Make sure new freckles aren't actually bugs.
4) A surprising fact, it doesn't hurt when bitten! Ticks numb the site to get a quick meal. Once the numbing wears off, they usually jump off of you, and it feels like you were bitten. Check the spot. If it's red, keep a close eye on it. If you start getting fatigued, joint/muscle pain, or fever, go to a doctor and say you may have Lyme Disease.
Have fun in forests!
5) Avoid Plum Island ;)
*These mice have joined the anti-vax group chat*
How does that make sense? There is no lyme vaccine.
@@blank2588 Vaccines are about triggering the Memory function of the Immune System. As such they work with Bacteria as well as Viruses, just in slightly different ways. And really anything else the Immune System can remember and we can get it to remember (without to many side effects).
What you think about is Antivral Drugs vs Antibiotics, wich are for *treating* the Infection.
Vaccines are usually about *preventing* the disesaes from getting serious. But a few are also used in Treatments for reasons you have to ask a doctor about.
tHiS ViDeO wAs SpOnSeReD bY *sKiLlShArE*
Even Jerry
1:32 who on earth thought it was a good idea to draw the Canadian flag like that
(Edit: lol I hope that didn’t sound too accusatory this channel is fantastic)
Whoops! Sincere apologies to our Canadian friends
MinuteEarth lol
MinuteEarth thanks for your apology
There was an attempt.
@MinuteEarth
Don't sweat it, it's not a big deal.
At least the maple leaf wasn't a weed leaf
I love how polite the Canucks are for Minute Earth misdrawing the Canadian flag.
I couldnt ask for a better Northern Neighbor
were canadians not canucks my guy
just wait till its majority Chinese Indian and Muslim...then will not be so.'nice'
@@fabulousdolphin4221 It's not as bad, most Chinese return after getting their education and the older folks can't adjust to the new reality whatsoever so they go back as well x) Not to mention that CCP's control of their citizens on student visas is actually even stronger when they're abroad (mostly because they're in a "hostile environment" full of "subversive propaganda" XD)
@@fabulousdolphin4221 And I've heard stuff like "fuck it's so cold I'd rather go to Poland" from indian people :v
thank you so much minute earth for talking about this!
As a current Lyme sufferer in treatment its really comforting to see the surge in the publicity of Lyme as a disease. Especially coming from a channel near to my heart
i love the mice that look like Pikachu (1:09), Mickey (1:19), and Jerry (1:27).
Same
U missed Olaf....it's where there is mickey
I saw literally twenty doctors and spend a week in hospital before they discovered I had Lyme's. Then I was cured with just a simple antibiotics cure. It was my third one by then because of all the misdiagnoses, but Lyme has a different kind of antibiotics. This was about three years ago, so I hoped the doctors have become better at identifying Lyme's in the mean time. I somehow doubt it. Probably only very few of the 20 doctors got informed about the final diagnosis.
I was lucky it was early phase. Lyme's ruins lives.
It's lyme and yes it ruins lives
I live 20 minutes from Lyme, CT and I just pulled a deer tick off of my neck after hiking with my dog yesterday. It’s not the first tick I’ve removed and it won’t be the last. Around here they’re so common, the best thing to do is to check yourself after being outside and to remove them promptly by gently pulling from the base. If they’re not attached for long you’re unlikely to be infected. So don’t panic about Lyme disease, just take precautions and be safe as you would with any disease :)
Yeah ok. That’s bullshit.
People don't believe that Lyme disease exists here, so there are very very few doctors who are willing to diagnose it and help you with treatment. My mom discovered she had Lyme a few years ago (over 20 years of her not knowing!). She was lucky to find a doctor who acknowledges its existence. I hope we can solve this disease.
Had a classmate in middleschool in a Portland/Gresham Oregon school get Lyme disease, she was out of class for a really long time, a couple months. She told us that the doctors refused to believe she had anything and told her she was faking it or it was all in her head.
I can't believe how fast this has moved from a new scary but rare disease to watch for while camping to a thing that destroyed the livelihood of relatives and many others. It was in the public eye in the 80s, and only 20ish years later it's seemingly all over. Rats are a terrifying carrier.
Is that *Jerry* in the thumbnail
Ye
yep he might be spreading it
😂
And Mickey in Florida too - How come MinuteEarth gets a free-pass when it comes to copyright/trademark strikes from Di$ney and/or WB? (I'm happy that they do..)
@@AdityaMehendale they are MinuteEarth
As a Czech I am happy about you drawing the flag right, but I am also concerned that Lyme disease is all around me :-D
It's not drawn right, it's backwards because of the way it is mounted in the drawing.
FML that video made me scratch myself.
Better Czech yourself regularly.
1:11 Pikachu!
1:18 Olaf.
1:21 Mickey mouse.
1:28 what is his name again?
I believe its Jerry
Tom
Tom!!! Ppl the freaking mouse is Tom!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
@@erinkv its jerry
@@erinkv the cat is tom
These MinuteEarth puns are so... sublyme.
I live in Connecticut and quite close to Lyme and my neighbor (who’s an older man) was one of the first cases of Lyme in CT. He has lived in that house his whole life, he got Lyme in that yard. Help me
1:32 Never seen a Canadian flag that looks like that before...
Well, their President is not even able to draw their own flag properly so...
Garry Iglesias Prime minister*
?? Trump is Prime minister ??
I'm talking about american, who have NO CLUE about geography and foreign culture.
Because it's not like it was a rare occurrence error, it happens OFTEN... Very often... Even on huge media.
We drew the Canadian flag inaccurately. Our apologies
We may require more cats...
Some helpful advice the video left out. If you are bitten by a tick, get a nurse to remove it (or do it yourself) and save it. The tick can be sent for testing to see if the tick has Lyme disease. If it tests positive you can get shots or something to keep the infection from taking hold of you.
1:15 *Pikachu.* (😁)
1:19 Mickey Mouse
1:27 Jerry
1:19 also Olaf
Pika Pika
I SAW PIKACHU
Lyme disease has destroyed my life. It’s a “snowflake” disease- no two people have the same symptoms or treatment needs (MS is like this too). Symptoms can include depression, inability to walk, amnesia, schizophrenia, brain fog, and extreme lethargy. There are hundreds more symptoms.
If you think you’ve been exposed, get tested for common borrelia coinfections: babesia, bartonella, erlichea, etc.
I've been right there with you, for a little over two years my local doctor diagnosed me with chronic fatigue from my symptoms of general lethargy and brain fog and simply told me to wait it out. It wasn't until almost three years in we found a Lyme expert who from moment one of walking into his office told me to hold my arms out straight. My arms were shaking like a leaf and he said ya that's one of his big tells for Lyme. About a year of treatment and I'm finally getting back on my feet. It's absolute hell but you can do it, the medicine and expertise are out there it's just getting you to them.
Nick C Like Raf has said, you might have something other than Lyme disease. I suspect that you have already done a lot of research but I do recommend that you follow his advise and look into fatigue related diseases. There are also plenty of other rare diseases. Try to look up how many of them match up with your symptoms.
Raf Naegels no...
Raf Naegels hi Raf, that’s a common misconception. I for one have taken every antibiotic under the sun and still have positive tests for borrelia. CFS has become a label used to discount the symptoms of people who haven’t been accurately diagnosed by existing test methods.
@@nickc3657 That's rough I've had it 9 years ago as well, but mine was hot and fast. I had extreme pain in my knees and a fever of 105. I was fortunate as it seems to be gone after a round of antibiotics. Though some things I deal with still I believe are a result of it. For example a lot of perfumes, air fresheners, cleaners and such give me a massive head ache. I didn't have this problem before I had Lyme and it started right after. That never got better.
1:13
Who Sees That Yellow Strange Electric Mouse?
Who's That Pokemon!?
Anyone: it's pikach-
Me: YELLOW STRANGE ELECTRIC MOUSE!!! >:3
For those of you who keep saying they had insufficient interest in the Lymerix vaccine, what ACTUALLY happened is that those who got the vaccine, many developed the same symptoms of Lyme long-term and then tested positive for Lyme. I have a friend who was one of these people. This is why the vaccine was discontinued. It was a total failure and literally cost some people their lives. I have Lyme, as well, and my advice to you is to not encourage the idea of another disastrous vaccine, but rather educate people on the importance of prevention. Also, educating doctors in their knowledge and treatment of this often complex and chronic illness is another desperately needed step in the right direction. Insurance companies should also be forced to cover Lyme treatment and states should not exclude IV antibiotics for possible treatment as this is one of the many reasons why some develop a long-term debilitating infection.
A lot of people don't get the bullseye and a lot of doctors still think it's psychosymatic.
Who invited pikachu into the mouse squad? So I can't touch pikachu?
Edit: I think target the shop carried the disease XD (joke)
Pikachu is a mouse
ᴀɴɪᴍᴇ ғᴀɴ ɢɪʀʟ 777 (fleck●ω●) I know owo
Eh Pikachu is constantly blasting electricity around, that should kill all the ticks on it
Boy, I missed the guitar backgrounds with these videos
*Lyme Disease:* YOU PICKED UP THE WRONG HOUSE FOOL!!!
*My Health:* _Ah, sh--, here we go again._
Could mice or ticks be made immune to the disease the gene editing that was proposed for mosquitoes and malaria?
I thought the same thing. However this (gene editing a large population) is the "last resort" of preventing a disease.
We actually *have* a vaccine, but Anti-Vaxers got it pulled: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease#Vaccination
it is also not quite as deadly as Malaria, so it is far from that criticial.
Good luck genetically editing tens of millions of wild mice or billions of ticks. Mosquitoes are easy because they breed in a few easily controllable spots, not all over in every single random place they can find...
@@KuK137 It does not need to be all of them. Indeed a 95% quoate is usually enough for herd-immunity to kick in.
And as long as it is evolutionary beneficial, selection presure will deal with it.
My God all of you are gene therapy crazy.
Detective Pikachu analysing the mice situation! :D
It feels like the video was originally going to end at 1:37 but they decided that was too depressing.
Probably because the puns are usually at the end
In the US, the problem is the closure of farms near urban areas. These farms used to serve as a barrier between cites and nature but increased mechanization has led to bigger farms in areas unbroken by roads and utilities. The older smaller farms, now abandoned, revert to wild and critters scamper right up to the suburbs and beyond.
That ending pun just... beautiful.
I love field mice! They are literally the cutest beings in Earth! 🥰🐭 I know they carry a lot of disease though!
Lyme disease is a worldwide epidemic, and all of the US is affected by it, not just northern states. I'm from Florida, got bit by a tick, and very sick from it ever since, plus co infections to boot, Babesia, and Erlichia to name a couple. What's worse I got bit by something again since I was tested, and took pics, because I didn't know much about Lyme at the time, I assumed the bite was a spider bite, since friends said that's what it probably was, until I showed my doc who said it looked like a tick bite, so now I have to be retested, as since that bite, my lymph nodes have had so much pain and problems, and very stiff neck. I have a constant high white blood cell count, and I'm anemic, this all added to the health problems including huge neuro problems I've already been having previously from my first tick bite. Lyme is a very very serious worldwide concern, even a few cases found in Egypt, and I know Australia has some huge problems of it there according to what I've read and seen.
That "Lymelight" pun at the end got me.
I found the Easter eggs in this video
Pikachu - behind the Mice in 1:10
Olaf the snowman - can be seen in the image of North America in 1:20
Jerry the Mouse - can be seen holding a tick in 1:30
Thank me later
tbh i already know most of the stuff covered in your vids, but i still always watch them for that one pun at the end
I got lymes in Ireland in 2018 was hospitlised for a month, I was paralysed on the left hand side of my body for 4 months, it's 2020 now and i still have severe fatigue brain fog and memory loss, but I'm getting there slowly but surely.
Best advice I can give to anyone interested is to take precautions when you're outdoors, cover up, wear bright coloured clothing and use insect repellant (deets). Always check yourself after being outdoors.
The University of Minnesota sponsors a lot! But I’m not complaining cause I live in Minnesota and plan on going to UofM
This vid is great as always! 👍
i appreciate your optimism when it comes to truly terrifying things like climate change that these are all problems that we can and will eventually solve its honestly refreshing hearing that we can solve these issues and not just the planets on fire and there is nothing we can do about it but lay down and die
You should always check yourself for ticks after going outside in wooded areas. To contract Lyme disease the tick needs to bite you for 48-72 hours, act often and quickly! I'm a research assistant for a professor writing papers on Lyme disease on how to solve the Lyme disease problem.
I read about 8 hours (nymph stadium) to 24 (adult tick) hours, until they inject the borellia. Do you know of a an authoritative source for the latest facts of this?
Pikachu: PIKA PIKA! ME: I SEE PIKACHU IN THE VIDEO!!!!!!! 1:12
Amazing! fund more research like these
Ive red about the lyme desese in warrior cats. They used blazing star to heal. That might not work on humans though.
not enough puns used in this one. I expect more from the team
NOOOOO NOT PIKACHU AND JERRY?!?!?!?!?
or pichu
And Mickey too! Did you not notice him? Or did you just not care?
Its pikachue pichu has a tiny tail i think
0:47 Wait, I've seen this one before
*_flashback to 14th century_*
One challenge to overcome, is making a video that is not filled with an ad for half the video.
I really love your channel keep going like that guys
I felt like there was a reason I got a hamster not a mouse
1:11 the pikachu😂😂
Man, your science videos are really good! The sponsor ads are the only not good thing in the video though. But besides that, the rest is incredibly educational and inspirational! Hopefully someone working for the government will see these videos and put those ideas to the big guy's heads.
1:08 beware of that yellow mouse with the black stripes, it my shock you :D
That Canadian flag at 1:31 is pretty disappointing
The problem on our island is not mice, but deer. They are also not good at grooming away ticks, and we have so many deer that you can not step on a piece of grass without having to check for ticks. I found a baby hedgehog once that was dehydrated and dying because of all the ticks it had :-(
1:35 "leading to a huge uptick in Lyme disease"
who else was going to leave fullscreen cus you heard the pun and thought the vid was over?
Mouse: Look at my baby!
Tick: Yeah!
Tick: Look at my baby!
Lyme disease: Yeah!
Lyme disease: I’m evil!
Another reason ticks are now thriving in the northeastern United States Imports of Canada, also related to climate change, it because the winters I'm not as cold as they used to be and below freezing temperatures are not lasting as long as they used to be. It's common now for Winters and Pennsylvania, for example, to be broken up by multiple thaws and abnormally warm periods, instead of temperatures staying cold all winter long. This allows ticks to more easily survive our winters.
I love your videos!
I live in Canada and know someone who has lyme disease, well, I haven't talked much if at all to them but I I've seen them, know people who know them, know of their existence and go to the same school as them. 1:31 That's not how Canada's flag looks. The red lines should be on the side. Great video anyways, I do enjoy this channel.
First the Koala Chlamydia ward, now studying disease carried by ticks. Man, John Oliver is really putting a lot of effort into his backup STEM carrier.
This video made me all itchy
Thanks
My Czech mum got Lyme disease when she was little.
Dear ME!
I live in the UK, and puns are part of my daily news consumption. Every time I read or hear one, I die a little inside. Please don't waste my life away! 😢
Finally Somebody mention czeck republick
yaaay .... oh
Habitat fragmentation leads to a loss of biodiversity which increases the number of competent hosts for tick borne disease such as lyme disease.
Got Lyme disease last week. Feelsbadman.
Did anyone else notice the Pikachu on 1:07?
Wasn't there a vaccine that was discontinued due to side effects? Maybe more effort should be put into better immunization!
Yeah for its side effects, but also it not being reliably effective
There was a vaccine that was discontinued because anti-vaxxers scared away potential customers. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-minute-will-there-be-a-lyme-disease-vaccine-for-humans/
Side effects are extremely rare
@@ketsi3079 But so is lyme. There's always a benefit-harm estimation which apparently wasn't too favorable for the vaccine. It's the same reason why the general public isn't vaccinated against rabies because the vaccine is quite expensive and rabies is exeedingly rare.
Have more cats. Cats are killing machines.
Oleg Danko yeah but they bring the dead mice inside the house _~_ well mine do
Domestic house cats are also responsible for the extinction of over 20 bird species.
Yes
Also, some people are allergic to cats.
Also ticks feed on cats too. And bring them closer to suburbs
My mom has Lyme disease, she takes turmeric supplements and hydroxchloraquine, thankfully she is a lot better now.
1:22 I see what you did I love all the references
People might not understand why introducing wolves in forests will reduce lyme disease infections.
My classmate has Luke’s disease he spent a couple years in the hospital and barely ever shows up
If I remember right, rats are pretty good at grooming.
Rats actively kill mice for my knowledge.
Does it mean feral city rats have some king of advantage to us after all (even if smaller than fully carnivorous animals)?
My dad got Lyme while working in Old Lyme, CT (next door to Lyme proper) in 1988. Took a few years to get diagnosed or treated, at which point it'd already done a lot of damage...and the high-dose rounds of antibiotics made him allergic to them, too.
Shoutout to the very well-drawn Jerry. When’s the last time you’ve watched a full episode of Tom and Jerry?
Marc Tati this morning
I saw a Lyme disease AD while watching this *WHAAAATT*
1:14 Who Saw Pikachu There?
Correction because I am passionate about opossums:
The study conducted to see how many ticks oppossums consume bassically put a bunch of ticks in a cage with the opossum and counted how much was left after a while.
The study did not check the opossum for ticks and recreated studies make the results a little worse.
Also Opossums are not immune to ticks because they eat them too fast. That is absurd. They are immune because of their body temprature, the same reason they are immune to rabies.
so this is our fault
Fun fact: I was diagnosed and treated for having lyme disease. Oddly though I never got the target shaped rash or a fever
Erythema migrans only manifests in about 30% of patients. I was in that minority and was still misdiagnosed. Granted it was thirteen years ago.
Pikachu was added to Earth!
1:35 that pun was so bad I thought we were at the end of the video.
1:10 anyone else notice the Pikachu?
Pikachu at 1:10! And Jerry at 1:30!
I'M TOO FREAKED OUT FOR ALL THOSE PUNS
1:29 a jerry grat first pickachu now this..
I live in CT
This videos doesn't do enough to show just how devastating untreated lyme disease can be! It is shocking how bad it can be and how much people are suffering. Not the right tone for such an important video.
Really have to be careful with the chemicals. Aren't an overuse of pesticides responsible for the ongoing collapse of insect populations (including pollinators)?
Me : oh look its jerry
UA-cam : *COPYRIGHT*
1:31 Omg the way the Canadian flag is drawn
Check Canadian flag art.
How 2 days ago
Chinese flag too
It's like someone got Canada confused with Austria, then slapped a red oak leaf on it and called it a day.
With all the feral cats around here I haven’t seen a live mouse in the wild in years.
How do mice pass it to humans? Are there vicious mice biting people? Are people eating mice? You cant just leave a detail like that out ....
Ticks bite Mice. Mice are infected. Ticks are infected. Ticks bite Humans. Hotel? Trivago.
It's in the clip: because 90% mice are infected, there is a much higher chance of ticks picking up the bacteria from mice. Because mice are becoming much more numerous, that means more mice are getting bitten by ticks, picking up the bacteria and then passing it on to humans.
@@ohkay8939 oh, so it's still the ticks spreading it to humans, the mice are just increasing the chance the tick has the bacteria?
@@FNHotYes and yes. A much higher number of ticks with a chance of having the bacteria in the first place, due to sheer numbers of infected rodents to pick it up from, who picked it up from ticks etc. like a vicious circle.
@@ohkay8939 okay, that makes sense. So I shall continue to loath ticks, and kill every single one I see.