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We’ve covered how tick bites can transmit Lyme Disease (East), as well as Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (All US), but ticks, as well as small mammals like rabbits and mice (and in one instance wild hogs) can catch and transmit Tularemia, a highly contagious disease that often causes mass rodent die-offs. How do humans catch [...]

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While people in the East and South have to worry about getting Lyme Disease from tick bites, there are other diseases that ticks can transmit. One that occasionally shows up in all mainland US states is Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, which is transmitted by tick bites from the American Dog Tick (East of the rockies [...]

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Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a year round disease. It’s only April and it’s already projected to exceed the number of cases of infection this year, breaking what since the early nineties has been a fairly steady streak. Washington has already declared an epidemic, and now there are over 100 known cases in Florida. Montana, [...]

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Studies have sourced many antibiotic resistant bacteria to farm animals who are given a daily dose of antibiotics—and now a change in FDA guidelines will finally help stem the source of what is increasingly becoming a common, and deadly, problem. The new guideline allows farmers to continue to use antibiotics to treat sick livestock, but [...]

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As nano silver is used in more products, it’s natural that toothbrushes would be one to receive an infusion to fight microbes, since bacteria not only causes bad breath and gingivitis, but cavities. Plus, having nano silver in the bristles keeps the tooth brush germ-free, according to the manufacturers! A new article from Natural News [...]

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