The Global Search for Education: Prevention — Ticks
“What we’ve found is that white-footed mice are the most important hosts in producing infected ticks.” — Rick Ostfeld Given the 300,000 new cases of Lyme disease a year in the US reported by the CDC, it is understandable that health organizations and local governments in this country are extremely anxious to develop a broader, more effective tick-borne diseases control strategy. As you will discover...
The Global Search for Education: Japan
“Ours is now a knowledge based society, which requires education to strengthen higher-ordered inquiry, creativity and communication beyond ready-made knowledge and skills acquisition.” — Professor Manabu Sato Many consider Japanese primary and junior secondary level education to be exceptional, yet Manabu Sato believes the quality of his country’s senior secondary and higher education is questionable....
The Global Search for Education: Research – Ticks
Borrelia burgdorferi cultivated from the brains of patients suffering from chronic Lyme neuroborreliosis as seen by dark field microscopy. Given that according to the CDC, there are 300,000 individuals who are affected annually by Lyme disease in the US, it is astonishing that so little research money has been given to understanding Lyme and tick-borne illnesses in this country and internationally. Much like the syphilis debate...
Alice – Tea in Chicago
“It’s a party in which the child within can play again and run with the imagination.” — Ayala Leyser I am going to a Mad Hatter Tea Party in Chicago. I’ll be sipping tea and talking utter nonsense with the Mad Hatter, the Red Queen, the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, the Dormouse, Alice and all the other fantastical characters from Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland. I’ll be...
The Global Search for Education: France – Ticks
“Chronic Lyme disease is due to the persistence of Borrelia within tissues but is also probably due to other micro-organisms responsible for co-infections.”— Dr. Christian Perronne Lyme (Borreliosis), Anaplasmosis /Ehrlichiosis, Babesiosis, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Bartonella, Tularemia, and more recently, Borrelia miyamotoi (a distant relative of Lyme Borreliosis) are recognized tick-borne...
The Global Search for Education: Germany – Ticks
“One of the first projects should be the improvement of the test sensitivity for chronic Lyme disease patients worldwide. The European Union has spent over 1 million Euros on the development of a high-sensitive lab on a chip project which is still underway.” — Dr. Armin Schwarzbach The CDC’s new estimate this month of 300,000 cases of Lyme disease per year in the US (10 times higher than previously...
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