Adding garlic to foods that are rich in fats and carbohydrates may keep those substances from doing the damage theyâre known to do. Whatâs more, eating garlic can help boost your immune system, help ward off heart disease, fight inflammation and lower blood pressureâto name a few.
Lyme Disease Has Spread Throughout Great Lakes States. ....INCLUDING INDIANA. Lyme Disease, a malady usually transmitted by the bite of a tiny deer tick is on the rampage in the Great Lakes states and anyone who spends time outdoors should take extra steps to protect against tick bites. Lyme is caused by a tiny bacterium called a spirochete, a spiral microbe closely related to the microbe which causes syphillis.
Sleeping sickness is most commonly spread through the bite of an infected tsetse fly. Even in areas where the disease occurs, only a small percentage of flies are generally infected. Tsetse flies are the size of a honey bee and are grey-brown. They usually bite during the daytime and their bites are usually quite painful. A human becomes infected with Trypanosoma brucei parasites when an infected tsetse fly feeds on his or her blood. The parasites that cause sleeping sickness, especially T. b. rhodesiense, can also infect cattle and wild animals. In rare cases, sleeping sickness can also be spread: