Lyme transmitted through ingested food?
I stumbled across this article: cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol12no12/05-1552.htm and it got me wondering that if a cow with lyme disease was eaten medium-rare, perhaps it could infect the person eating it? This could explain people getting lyme in non-wooded areas (like Brooklyn, NY).
As far as I know the only way one could get lyme from food is that if an encysted form of the spirochete was consumed and there are many unanswered questions about this. The spirochetes that live in one species cannot live in another without first changing their genome structure. So, researchers found that if they injected spirochetes from a deer into a mouse, the spirochetes died. The spirochetes, in their live form, are species specific. So those in meat could not infect someone eating that meat.
posted on November 17, 2010 in food/eating, tick carriers, Transmission
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