Does being blonde/fair skinned make you more susceptible to Lyme?

Hi,

This is really random but are most people suffering from Lyme/co infections fair skinned? Obviously it can effect everyone but I feel like a high percentage of people seemed to be blonde or fair skinned. I am blonde with blue eyes, my friend who I am sure has Lyme but never been properly tested is blond with blue eyes. And I feel like anytime you see someone on the news talking about it, they almost always have very fair skin. And then the celebrities Yolanda and Avril L. And lastly, I have heard recently of some top athletes getting it and they all have blond hair. So it has made me wonder if there is something in the genetic makeup that makes fair skinned people more susceptible to getting the severe debilitating symptoms/illness.

Kelly

Post Edited (KellyR) : 8/17/2019 10:36:19 AM (GMT-6)

I’m strawberry blonde with blue eyes.

Before I turned gray, I had light brown hair, blue eyes. Light skin. I tan some now but burned most of my life.

There is a Lyme susceptible gene. It’s 15-6-51. There’s also two multi-susceptible genes 4-3-53 and I forgot the other one. HLA-DR tests. Google CIRS labs. You’ll see it. Insurance covered my test through Labcorp.

I live in “blond country” lol. The limies I’ve met are mostly Caucasian and women, but not any more blondes than others.

That said, being a guy, and one who was never bed bound by this, I'm slightly darker native northern European (they aren’t blond lol), and some native American ancestry.

lyme does discriminate...it sees no color , race , creed or religion. yes white affluent persons can often afford treatment. maybe there are some tuskegee airmen i can ask if syphilis is racist?!

the only way I can explain why they are deliberately withholding treatment on so many levels is that it is a weapon, and it is doing exactly what they want it to do, and that is .... target a specific geno-type group then deny them treatment until it becomes persistent and then tell them it's all in their head. if any medical doctors try to help, they lose their license/livelyhood for interfering with the bioweapon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanin

Recent research suggests that melanin may serve a protective role other than photoprotection.[51] Melanin is able to effectively chelate metal ions through its carboxylate and phenolic hydroxyl groups, in many cases much more efficiently than the powerful chelating ligand ethylenediaminetetraacetate (EDTA). Thus, it may serve to sequester potentially toxic metal ions, protecting the rest of the cell. This hypothesis is supported by the fact that the loss of neuromelanin observed in Parkinson's disease is accompanied by an increase in iron levels in the brain.