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Posted 10/22/2018 12:53 AM (GMT 0)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/01/13/winter-ticks-exact-heavy-toll-new-england-moose/PmpQ3QAHm9C1imAxkzMhDM/story.html

I'm sure Lyme disease has absolutely nothing to do with these moose deaths.
Posted 10/22/2018 1:41 AM (GMT 0)

gfields said...
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/01/13/winter-ticks-exact-heavy-toll-new-england-moose/PmpQ3QAHm9C1imAxkzMhDM/story.html

I'm sure Lyme disease has absolutely nothing to do with these moose deaths.

I couldn’t get in to see it without registering .

But I’ve seen pictures of moose covered head to toe with ticks in northern Canada.
Posted 10/22/2018 2:19 AM (GMT 0)
Ive read a lot about Minnesota Moose with ticks, and lyme is never mentioned. Blood loss from ticks is mentioned and it can easily kill a calf or weakened adult moose.

Brain and liver worms and thriving wolf population is killing them off to. The MN DNR and UofM Duluth have a moose emergency chopper that takes off within a short time when a "GPS'd moose" has not moved in a while or its heart rate has stopped. The even can tell there heart rate from this. The difficult part is getting to the moose in the woods before the wolf packs have a feast.

http://www.startribune.com/moose-populations-the-thick-and-thin-of-it/412741063/

On Isle Royal, 20miles into Lk Superior, Moose are thriving since there are no wolves on it. Im sure they still die from ticks too, but the weak survive easier without wolves.

https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/moose/adult.html

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/environment/2017/05/06/threat-of-moose-killing-tick-infestation-looms-as-far-north-climate-warms/ - "A load of more than 40,000 ticks will use up a calf's entire blood supply in four weeks, Pekins said. "They get anemic, they have declining weight too, and that's just the end of them," he said."

Poor creatures
Posted 10/22/2018 2:39 AM (GMT 0)
These are mammals that are getting every tick bourne illness available. Lyme, Babesia, Bartonella, the 100+ coinfections, and who knows what unnamed virus and illnesses that have not even been identified yet. Do you remember what it's like to have lyme disease? Well, imagine living in the woods, in the cold, having lyme disease and never having a single dose of antibiotics. Just letting these diseases fester. You would die.

Ticks eventually drop off when they've gorged themselves. It's not blood loss these moose are dying from. It's disease. They have to say it's blood loss because Lyme Disease is a totally harmless "disease". It's not even a disease in the eyes of the CDC. It's nothing really. No big deal. It's less severe than a cold. It goes away after 1 dose of antibiotics. No problemo. These loonies with "chronic" lyme disease are just making it up. It's all in their heads.

Trust me. People are dying from Lyme Disease. Untreated mammals in the woods are dying from lyme disease. Lyme carditis, strokes, blockages. Lyme Disease is a serious illness that kills mammals.
Posted 10/23/2018 2:56 AM (GMT 0)
For some reason,(per one of my links), the moose population is thriving on the island of Isle Royal in Lake Superior. They need to figure out why besides the lack of wolves on this island.

This island, 20 miles of Minnesota's coast is uninhabited other that a few US park employees, and a limited number of backpackers. It has only one pair of wolves there. That said, they should study the ticks there, or possibly lack of ticks. Its naturally air -conditioned from lk superior, no real heat waves, no pulution, no contaminated ground water from the mainland. It is subject to slight contaminated air currents from Canadian paper mill air pollution, thats it. Perfect place for good habitation as its the most naturally preserved place in continental US. No deer on the island either, deer carry a brain worm transferable to moose.

On mainland MN., 20 miles away by water, the moose population like in the NE, is dying and is half what it was in 2006 from 6000 to 3000.

Post Edited (astroman) : 10/22/2018 9:13:38 PM (GMT-6)

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