Tick removal product

Here is what is in the tick releaser spray:

Ingredients: Clove oil, lemongrass oil, purified water, almond oil, glycerin.

The new Tick Releaser Spray & Test Kit took top honors by winning the Gold Product Innovation award at Backer’s Total Pet Expo 2014. The kit provides not only a means to safely remove ticks, but also to send them in for diagnostic testing to rule out the possibility of disease transmission.

The new Tick Releaser Spray & Mail-In Test Kit from Earth’s Balance is an all-encompassing solution. It’s a convenient, cost-effective means to protect pets and family. After the tick has been safely removed, it is a good idea to have it tested to ensure it does not carry debilitating disease.

The kit itself includes: releaser spray (made with all-natural essential oils), tweezers, collection tube, alcohol prep pad and mail-in diagnostic testing order form. All-natural and toxin-free, it provides a means to release ticks quickly, safely and intact. Simply spray, tweeze and collect. Then fill out the order form and mail the tick in for your selected diagnostic tests.

For an additional fee, ticks can be submitted and tested for the following diseases: Lyme disease, Anaplasma, Babesia, Ehrlichia,  Bartonella, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Tularemia. Prices range from $25 for one disease up to $75 for a total panel of all seven diseases.

Tick Releaser Spray & Mail-In Test Kit will be available in stores and online in early spring. For more information, visit Earthsbalance.com or call 1-800-292-3424.

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http://rvdailyreport.com/products/earth-balance-offers-tick-releaser-spray-mail-in-test-kit/

Ticks can be submitted and tested for the following diseases: Anaplasma, Babesia, Ehrlichia, Lyme disease, Bartonella, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Tularemia. Lab testing fees range from $25 for one disease up to $75 for a total panel of all seven diseases.

For more information, visit earthsbalance.com.  Dealers and retailers interested in carrying Earth’s Balance Tick Releaser and  Mail-In Test Kit should email sales representative Jason Reid at jreid@marshallpet.com.

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The first ad says the tick is mailed to Research Associates Laboratory. http://www.vetdna.com   It is located in Dallas, Texas.

Here's the information from the company's about page:

Since 1992 Research Associates laboratory has been providing state of the art molecular diagnostics to veterinarians, zoos, universities, restaurants, hotels, and the pet and pest industries. We are the nation's oldest and most experienced veterinary molecular diagnostic laboratory.

We are the only diagnostic laboratory offering affordable next day results 6 days per week.

Laboratory Director

    Ernie Colaizzi

Contact

    (972) 960-2221
    (972) 960-1997
    14556 Midway Road Dallas, TX 75244 (Google Map)

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The lab offers what's called "Real Time PCR testing." http://www.vetdna.com/real-time-pcr-testing
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So apparently, Earth's Balance (http://www.earthsbalance.com/products/tick-releaser-spray-and-mail-in-test-kit), which is a subsidiary of Marshall Pet Products (http://www.marshallpet.com/) seems to have teamed with a vet lab for the tick testing. The out-of-the gate marketing is clearly for hunters and other people who spend time in the woods.

Yet Another Tick-Borne Disease...

Posted: Sunday, October 13, 2013 4:30 am
DR. E. KIRSTEN PETERS

When my dog and I walk along the Snake River during the warm seasons of the year, we can both come home with a tick or two. I’m used to feeling those little legs on my skin or scalp and picking off the critters. If I’m lucky, I get to them before they attach and start sucking my blood. Because I’ve been doing this all my life, I don’t get stressed out about ticks, but I do know they can carry certain diseases.

Recently the Shots website of National Public Radio reported that scientists have made an advance about an unusual illness that befell two farmers in Missouri in 2009. The men came down with bad fevers, nausea and diarrhea. They were sick enough they sought medical attention, and it was discovered the platelet counts in their blood had dropped significantly.

At first, they were treated with antibiotics for some sort of bacterial infection. But the treatments didn’t help. A doctor at Heartland Regional Medical Center in Missouri then sent samples of the farmers’ blood to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. When the samples were analyzed, medical researchers turned up a new virus, not one previously known to science. They named it the Heartland virus.

Happily, the sick men ultimately got better, their bodies beating back the infection that had made them so ill. But the question remained: How were they exposed to the virus? The basic clues were that the two men worked outdoors, were in the same state and had been bitten by ticks before coming down sick.

Federal researchers have now figured out how the virus was transmitted to the men. In 2012 they collected some 50,000 ticks (what a job!), including taking some ticks off dogs and horses at the farms of the men who had become ill. Analyzing the ticks, they have found the Heartland virus.
“It’s the first time anyone has found (the virus) in the wild, in the environment,” said researcher Harry Savage to Shots. “It means the virus is yet another tick-borne disease in the U.S.”

The 'Lone Star' tick

The Heartland virus has so far been detected in only one kind of tick, a species called the lone star tick. (The bug isn’t named for Texas, but for a little white dot that adults carry on their backs.) And only the juvenile ticks called nymphs have been shown to carry the virus. About 1 in 500 of the nymphs has the virus.

“If you were looking for Lyme in Connecticut, there would be more ticks infected,” Savage said. “But for a virus, (1 in 500) is a substantial number.”

The lone star tick is found in the lower Midwest, the Southeast and along the coast of New York and New England. The Heartland virus gives people living in those regions another reason to check themselves when they come in from the outdoors during the warm seasons of the year.

Happy tick hunting, everyone!

Dr. E. Kirsten Peters, a native of the rural Northwest, was trained as a geologist at Princeton and Harvard. This column is a service of the College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences at Washington State University. 

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Edwin Masters practiced medicine in Missouri and discovered that Lyme Disease
existed in Missouri. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention steadfastly opposed
his views. After Dr. Masters died, the CDC renamed the Missouri illnesses STARI (Southern Tick Associated Rash Illness). It is also known as Masters disease. [For whatever reason, STARI is not a reportable illness to the CDC. - Bob]

The Wiki article here states that the symptoms of STARI are generally believed to be less severe than in Lyme. [Perhaps that is why it is not a reportable disease. -Bob]

The CDC has declared Missouri, as well as in all states south of the Mason Dixon Line,as non-endemic for Lyme/Borreliosis. [Go figure. ILADS claims all 48 contiguous US states are endemic- Bob]
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Respectfully submitted,
Alan b. MacDonald MD, FCAP FASCP October 13,2013

Alan MacDonald, MD writes to Katie Couric, after her Lyme show

Dear Katie,

Infections of the Borrelia complex are plural, chronic, and recalcitrant to short therapies in many patients. Lyme is an outmoded label for this plurality of public health issues and the word "Lyme" leads to oversimplification of regulatory thinking about pluralities of actual diseases in the human host.

These conceptual voids lead to under-diagnosis, under-treatment, and under-reporting of actual human disease cases. Morbidities from chronic borreliosis - complex diseases and mortalities are not properly diagnosed or recorded by the Centers for Disease Control.

Politicization of these medical entities has become codified and entrenched by
rules promulgated by the CDC and the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA). Proper diagnosis and proper treatment of borreliosis complex diseases must be individualize to manage each patient. Central Dogma was rethought and discarded in the early years of DNA science. The AIDS conundrum was only solved by rejection of the Central Dogma and the awakening to the idea that the AIDS virus and other Reverse Transcriptases produced disease by reversal of the Central Dogma of DNA. These were unimagined by the CDC.

Statisticians in Atlanta Georgia, and "rules" about Haitian diseases did not lead the way in the management of the worldwide AIDS crisis.

The exposee "And the Band Played On" lighted the way for a pathway to truth which had been steadfastly spurned by the CDC. Presently the CDC is spurning knowledge about the Borreliosis/Lyme epidemic. Doctors of philosophy prevail over doctors of medicine in the inner  workings of the Centers for Disease Control. Only doctors of medicine are obligated to solve individual patient health problems.

Let the doctors who actually take care of patients practice the healing art, without encumbrances by doctors of philosophy and statisticians.

Alan B. MacDonald, MD, FCAP October 9,2013

RESEARCHER BIO 
MD, American Board of Pathology Certified in both Anatomic Pathology and Clinical Pathology.
35 years of Hospital Diagnostic Pathology experience in all areas of Diagnostic Pathology
of Benign, Infection, and Malignant diseases of humans. 30 Years of experience with Borrelia Research, at the level of Bench research in a biosafety Level 2 Microbiology, and experience with Ultracentrifugation, Pulsed Tangential Alternating Field Electrophoresis, Electron Microscopy, In vivo borrelia primary Isolation, borrelia focused Autopsies on Fetal and Human patients, Primary Isolation of borrelia from Frozen Alzheimer Brains obtained from Dr. George Glenner's UCSD Brain Bank, Primary Isolation of borrelia from Autopsy Alzheimer's Disease brain in community hospital practice, PCR study of the Flagellin B ORF of Borrelia burgdorferi, DNA sequence analysis of PCR products for FLAGELLIN B  DNA from AD frozen tissues from tbe Harvard Mclean Hospital Brain Tissue resource Center, Development and validation of Borrelia-specific DNA probes for Flagellin B, and for the inner cell membrane of Borrelia burgdorferi species BB0060., confirmation that biofilms of Borrelia exist IN VITRO, and extension to IN VIVO Borrelia biofilms in human bacterial Endocarditis, various Cutaneous borrelioses, and Neuroborreliosis.

Doctors urged to test for more than Lyme disease after a tick bite

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The following appeared on Bostonglobe.com:
Doctors urged to test for more than Lyme disease after a tick bit
Date: Jul 2, 2013

Patients who test negative for Lyme disease after a suspected tick bite could instead be suffering from a recently identified illness also spread by deer ticks, a team led by Massachusetts researchers reported Monday. The paper describes two patients, one in Massachusetts and one in New Jersey, who were initially suspected of having another tick-borne disease but were instead found to have the new infection. Published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the findings underscore the increasing importance for doctors to think about more than Lyme, the region's most common tick-borne disease, when they see a patient who was or could have been bitten by a tick. The authors said the cases may also give a hint about why some patients who test negative for Lyme become sick.

Read the article:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/07/01/doctors-urged-test-for-more-than-lyme-disease-after-tick-bite/443PKjvxln3rR0OHr5PTuL/story.html?s_campaign=8315