From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2004-02-24 05:44:58 UTC
Subject: RE: yes... 7 months old from Marshall farms
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <2781367.1077601498901.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
I am curious. Are you in a warm part of the nation and near enough to a coast to have seabirds like seagulls (vs. inland gulls)?
The reason I ask is that the cases don't seem to be being reported from dry areas, or from inland areas, or from areas while they are cold.
There are very few cases so that could be an entirely wrong impression.
We are about 20 or 30 miles from the shore but close enough to get gulls, terns, and some other seabirds.
I've been wondering about something which maybe has a seabird reservior and then is transmitted by bite. Female mosquitos or ticks will stay with only one host if they can draw enough blood from that one bite or resettling soon after being disturbed on the same host, and kits do sleep deeply.
It's just a curious coincidence so far and so is only a way-out-there hypothesis, but I am curious to know if anyone knows of any cases which did not start in areas during times when they were warm enough to have such parasites, and did not start at least somewhat near a coast because I don't so far. (Like I said, there may well be such cases and I may well be seeing a possible pattern which means absolutely zilch or which may not even exist with enough data.)