Rickettsia

It doesn't seem to be nearly as bad.

It's called Rickettsia australis, Australian tick fever.

Rickettsia australis.

And it was discovered during Second World War, actually up on the Atherton Tablelands, where there were tens of thousands of American and Australian troops all getting ready to go to New Guinea.

And they kept getting sick.

And the medical doctor up there in the army, he saw so many patients, he was able to figure out, okay, these guys have got Rickettsia, a fever.

And so people get that.

It's not nearly as bad as the fever,

Um, but there's ways of like kind of limiting it down.

Like you can still use local labs for Lyme testing, for Babesia, Bartonella, Ehrlichia, Anaplasma, Rickettsia, all these other tick-borne infections.

But unfortunately, they're not always gonna be positive through the local lab.

So I give people the, the options like consider Igenex, consider T Lab, where you can get DNA testing or RNA testing if the local labs are just not figuring out.

isn't anything I've ever had before, but it came up, so I read it.

I had, for just a moment, a touch of Rickettsia.

Yes, and Q-Fever talks about Rickettsia.

Oh, does

it? Oh, it does, yes, because I was looking at this, because I'm reading it, like Q-Fever, what is this? And then I'm reading it, and Rickettsia is in there.

So it's another one of my million tick bites over my life.

Oh, okay.

So antibiotic for Lyme is not gonna touch this, so that's another issue.

Then you have Anaplasma, Ehrlichia, and the different Rickettsias.

These actually are the most commonly found organisms when someone surveys property for ticks.

They say, "Well, what's in our tick?" More ticks contain these organisms than even Lyme or Babesia, and I think they're being overlooked clinically.

Researchers, including Willy Burgdorf himself, have found even parasites, nematodes, in the ticks, and the question is, are they transmitted, and if so, what do they do to people? So we're talking here about a mixed infection.

And so when someone says, "Oh, I got Lyme disease.

I took some penicillin and I should be fine," well, probably it'll help the Lyme to some degree, but it will do absolutely nothing for Babesia or any of the Rickettsias.

And now another thing we see is Bartonella.

Today, we're going to continue looking at the potential impacts of El Nino on the aquaculture industry, and specifically, we're going to look at the potential impact it may have on the industry in Chile and its potential to influence additional SRS outbreaks across the country's farming region.

SRS or Salmon Rickettsial Septicemia is a unique challenge that the industry faces in Chile, and one that isn't dealt with in the same way in many other salmon farming regions around the world.

So today, we'll look into a few different aspects as we evaluate the challenge heading into the coming months.

We'll look directly at the disease itself by analyzing its history around the world, what makes it a particularly challenging bacterium to combat, the risk factors associated with the cases of the disease, and lastly, how this particular El Nino may impact the severity of the outcomes in the upcoming Chilean summer.

I think you're really going to learn something new today, so let's dive in.

To start, let's talk about the history and challenge of the disease.

Salmon Rickettsial Septicemia, also known as Prickely Rickettsiosis, affects Atlantic salmon, coho salmon, and rainbow trout.

It was first discovered in the late '80s during a mortality outbreak in coho salmon within Chile, where approximately one point five million fish died, leading to an economic impact of roughly ten million USD.

You know, that's just amazing.

All the Bartonella's that you can name are represented in the Lyme relapsing fever All the Rickettsias, even the Swiss agent, which is a Rickettsia helvetica, is targeted now.

We were able to finally get that specimen.

Because remember, you have to have the original specimen in order to start the phage induction process.

And when you have resilience, you can handle a lot of stress.

Now, when the brain is under stress, let's say from high amounts of Lyme disease, infections that have made its way past the blood brain barrier could be Borrelia, Bartonella, Babesia, Ehrlichia, Rickettsia.

When they make it past the blood brain barrier and they get into the tissues, it causes high inflammation.

High inflammation means these little molecules called cytokines, a cytokine storm.

And they really dive into and go deep into different strands, the different types of bacteria, the different types of co-infections.

Because they don't just test for those four to five strands.

They look for Bartonella, Borrelia, Babesia, Ehrlichia, Rickettsia, all the strands and all the forms.

Remember that.

It was a classic one.

So it's Rickettsia, Bartonella, Babesia.

How do you say it? The one with the Ehrlichia?

Ehrlichia?

They can carry Mycoplasma.

They can carry Rickettsia, Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

They can carry tick-borne relapsing fever, depending on the species.

They can make you have alpha-gal.