Mysterious Illness Takes Control Of Holiday Resort | Diagnosis Unknown | Real Responders

On the tiny resort island of Martha's Vineyard, landscaper, Patrick Ryer, suffers from chills and high fever. Patrick has contracted Tularemia, a rare bacterial disease. Health officials alert residents and tourists who crowd the Vineyard over the summer holiday. Over the next month, ten more people are diagnosed with the disease, including other landscapers and children.
he Center for Disease Control assists federal and state health officials in their hunt for the cause. After six months of relentless investigation, researchers unravel the mystery. Those who suffered the illness have inadvertently given it to themselves. A contaminated batch of a dietary supplement sold in health food stores across the country is the culprit.
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[@Julia_BH]

I’ve had Tularemia. Also grew up the Boston area. Also had Lyme, Babesia, Bartonella, and red water fever. I deteriorated for over a decade and then was bedridden for 3 years while treating. Anyway, I’m much better, and very active. I’m also in nursing school :) it’s possible to get better!

[@caseyantoncew6114]

Wonderful news!

[@pinschrunner]

Lyme literate doctors are few and far between. Congrats that you got help and better

[@rosebud2222]

All the viruses & diseases we have today were deliberately created in a laboratory ie Aids Ebola BSE etc.

[@suprememasteroftheuniverse]

Then you call Brazil third world. I never had any of it, never heard none of it. It's like US is some African swamp.

[@stanswarts1939]

Count your blessings!

[@Him_He_Me]

You know its going to be a good doco when you hear this particular narrator. Love his voice

[@onekerri1]

"I vote for him just for his voice". Wow!

[@kamauwikeepa7308]

I agree, a good narrator with the right voice is a bonus and keeps you attentive. I'm quite deaf, but certain voices I'm able to pick up quite clear and distinctly.

[@BrittaStorm57]

My son almost died from this disease, he was on a ventilator in icu for over a month. This was about a year and a half ago, he is still struggling to get back to normal. Please wear masks when mowing lawns.

[@JustMe-gs9xi]

wow

[@kathleenhebert2278]

So Sorry 😢

[@LadyDragonfly200]

Praying for your son's recovery!

[@jennybertenshaw7694]

My ex SIL was on the island in June of 2000 He was staying with a well known singer working on some music.. He camped out on grass ..and YEP caught Tularaemia . No one told him about the risks. He went back to Boston and became very ill. He didn't have the cash /insurance to go to the hospital ..Luckily for him his doctor had antibiotic samples in his drawer, he could give him, .plus he luckily didn't develop the deadlier pneumonia variety of the disease. .He was due to marry in September ,almost too exhausted to do all the prep. I lived in Europe and had to arrange some of it for him and my daughter. They have always been very low key about it. If I hadn't seen this video I would never have known how serious it was for them. .How COULD the authorities NOT have warned visitors .I wonder how many more people who left the island became ill like my SIL ,but didn't get the right help.?.

[@gordonschedel368]

Oh my god my sister and my son both came back with that we did not know what it was very very terrible sick

[@leeanncrowe761]

Money

[@picilocarnal]

@@leeanncrowe761also, and fear of creating fear for the many who didn’t catch it. That’s the risk you take when you travel to places. You never know what illnesses are native to the area where their population could have created immunity and doesn’t get as affected. 😮

[@senadejesus1924]

Sounds like the $ from tourism is more important than ppls lives

[@mvandenberg364]

Ilness probably transmitted by ticks.

[@delib636]

It should be illegal to not alert people of diseases like this 😮

[@nickisnyder3450]

They did

[@53mandevilla]

They don’t alert us for a lot of things! I’m finding this out.. they do not care about us! Look at the jabs! 😮😮😮

[@ginacable5376]

​@@nickisnyder3450not quick enough.

[@JackWilliams-yo8ix]

​@@nickisnyder3450❤❤❤

[@DrKb2935]

I was 🤔 thinking the same thing. Money was the key factor in NOT TELLING PEOPLE. I think this was why COVID 19 spread so quickly and killed people.

[@juliaingrassia8996]

My husband got Rocky Mtn. Spotted Fever, in Kansas, where ticks are everywhere, but it took almost 3 weeks to figure out what was wrong, many specialists were seeing him, he was on an special mattress to keep him temp. lower (to no avail), antibiotics were not helping. They finally got the fever lower but it took months for a full recovery, but he was in-patient for 5 weeks.. His lungs never healed - he would wheeze, he was likely never going to father a baby. (We ha 2 - 2 miracles). His health was never "great" after that, he survived but never felt up to par, he passed away from natural causes at age 62. I will always feel the RMF was why his health bottomed out so young..... I feel people should have been warned...

[@hopefully2224]

The island should be held liable for NOT telling residence and visitors that this was happening! I live here and it's infuriating! Thinking of all the landscapers who mow hundreds of lawns a week without masks were at risk! My son did landscaping when he was 17. If he has gotten sick I would have sued!

[@laurelgirard8475]

Did they check compost piles? Many people dump their grass clippings in the compost.

[@picilocarnal]

They know about ticks, but they couldn’t find it in the grass. So how could they warn about other ways where they DIDNT find it? I hope there is a warning about ticks. If there isn’t then you could sue.

[@HobbyOrganist]

"If he has gotten sick I would have sued!" You would have lost

[@HobbyOrganist]

Like the video says, the cause WAS; "After six months of relentless investigation, researchers unravel the mystery. Those who suffered the illness have inadvertently given it to themselves. A contaminated batch of a dietary supplement sold in health food stores across the country is the culprit."

[@HobbyOrganist]

@@picilocarnal EVeryone and their dog knows about tick diseases unless they live in a cave, the CAUSE was not an insect it was; After six months of relentless investigation, researchers unravel the mystery. Those who suffered the illness have inadvertently given it to themselves. A contaminated batch of a dietary supplement sold in health food stores across the country is the culprit.

[@mattiemathis9549]

4:41 I’m watching this in 2023, after the pandemic. I’m so humbled by the nurses and doctors going about their job. Not worried about infection, just trying to help people. Now, at this point I don’t know how overworked and underpaid they are, but for anyone in the healthcare industry (other than insurance companies (you can just strait up FO) (and their employees (find a job where you don’t FO people everyday or go be a full fledged politician) you have my heartfelt thanks for the situations you put yourselves in. Thank you for trying to take care of us, while we make you sick! 💕💕💕

[@mse7501]

Not smart they can make others sick.

[@jawanauselton9197]

​@@mse7501what choice do we have? If we don't care for the ill, who's going to?

[@Snakefinger1000]

I'm stunned to hear that woman say openly that they were prepared to risk people getting ill because of the tourist dollar.. Why didn't they warn tourists and tell them to stay away until they knew exactly how the disease was transmitted ?

[@ZanysMoon]

Are you certain there was no notification? I do understand that the island economy was almost completely dependent on tourism, but given recent events, I have no confidence at all that people would have heeded the warning. I suspect at least the island newspaper carried info about the disease if not the "outbreak" status. Keep in mind that even at the close of this vid, there'd been no conclusion and that Tularemia was still happening sporadically. That's been several years now. I guess it's like ticks and Lyme disease. When one is, the other is also and Lyme is pretty serious as well.

[@markmitchell450]

The dollar is more important than people

[@markmitchell450]

@@ZanysMoon Lyme wasn't always a recognised illness or infection its only recently that doctors have excepted this disease is infecting humans Plus catching it isn't so easy a feeding tick firstly has to be an infected one then it has to be feeding for around 24 hrs so the majority of people will have noticed a tick much sooner It's still scary that a common bug can pass this on to you

[@thisisme3238]

MONEY...THEY WANTED TO KEEP MAKING MONEY, AT THE PEOPLE'S EXPENSE OF THEIR LIVES! 👎

[@chickenchange.6014]

Welcome to America lol.

[@iamme6773]

Yup. I live in a different touristy area of Massachusetts, and it doesn't surprise me at all that they're more worried about tourist money than the residents wellbeing. My county likes to keep things out of the news that'll scare off tourists. Like, we'll all know there was a drug related shooting, followed by a retaliation killing, but they'll run a story on some god awful "art", that the city paid some ridiculous amount of money for instead, or some upcoming classical music festival. Because, we're a quaint and rustic place, don't you know. There are no drugs, no homeless on every intersection, no robberies. Nothing to see here.

Good to know.

[@oldgringo2001]

16:50 The original *Jaws* was filmed on Martha's Vineyard. One of the big plot points is the mayor getting the police chief to cover up the first shark attack because "we need summer dollars". Ding-ding.

[@elizabethclothier3267]

Nice connection! :-)

[@josephboxmeyer5730]

I was just about to write the same comment. The program wording was so similar.

[@surveyguyor8958]

here's your sign

[@TheThreatenedSwan]

That's the right thing to do. The masses are brain dead particularly when it comes to things with such random variability as shark attacks. They already had tested the main theories and found no evidence before the actual cause, contaminated supplements, was found, so stoking public fear would not have been helpful.

[@shawkorror]

*mows lawn, dices a billion insects, inhales." The mystery remains..

[@Tser]

I think this documentary might have purposefully glossed over the leading hypotheses, which have been in place since the original paper linking cutting grass to the infection... because it's gross. Scientists believe it *is* that they're chopping up animals and animal feces. For example, the species of rabbits on the island make shallow hidden nests in grass and brush. They could be run over without noticing, especially by the people who are professional landscapers using riding lawn mowers and the like. It remains "unproven" because... I'm guessing no one wants to do a study of running over baby bunnies with a lawnmower to find out the infectious potential of aerosolizing them. It's widely accepted as the likely cause, however.

[@userunknownx]

@@Tser Exactly why they were checking cats. Cats love those baby bunnies, to them a rodent is a rodent.

[@surveyguyor8958]

@@Tser the CDC and the government do not like to follow the science. I think we learned that now.

[@TommyCrosby]

Watching a documentary about an outbreak in time of a coronavirus outbreak might seems stressful but I like to see how well we are prepared to fight outbreaks even in face of the uncertainty.

[@zairahshahid33]

Tommy Crosby I agree

[@hi.moriarty]

@@zairahshahid33 Wee Let's hope that the cdc and other professionals are a bit more advanced than with this one!

[@nicoleberinger5100]

It can also serve to help you plan what you would do if at risk in an outbreak zone

[@hi.moriarty]

@@nicoleberinger5100 That's so true!

[@karonxls]

We did better the China

[@patrickhandrahan3823]

That great to hear!!! You put the all mighty dollar over the health of visitors to.your high price island!

[@Moj0j0]

Who hunts for ticks with shorts on?

[@suzannebrown2505]

Well, look at it this way: They’re a hell of a lot easier to see with their dark little bodies against a lighter background. Tularemia! Oh My God! Pasteurella (?) tularensis!!! Really bad news! Holy s- - -! 🥺😲😫

[@darcymunro8930]

More American madness

[@chickenchange.6014]

🤣🤣🤣the doctors lol

[@surveyguyor8958]

morons. The USA is full of them. Look how they trust the CDC and the great reset.

[@joannayeo9545]

An idiot does!!

[@MrYorickJenkins]

My neighbour drives me nuts with his incessant noisy lawn mowing. Now I have an idea to get him to stop-"are you crazy? do you want to catch tularemia or something?"😄

[@JustMe-gs9xi]

I'd try that here,, but NOTHING stops these people. I don't even have a lawn,,, i have all gardens.

[@smc130]

I would have closed the island to tourists and would have been hated by the locals. Losing one life is too many.

[@surveyguyor8958]

to you maybe, but not the government. Look at Ford, the Pinto was going to be the safest car. The first car with ABS (too expensive so they didn't do it) then the bladder in the gas tanks. A person on the board asked the engineers how much they would save if they did not put in the bladders. Then asked a lawyer how much they would be sued. The savings were worth it, so they did not install the bladders. True fact, look it up. In the end if they did it, Pintos would be sold still today and be known as the first safe economy car.

[@justkittensbeingkittens5892]

6:47 oh my god that is the absolute WORST feeling. My little kitten had FIP and the med works within a few days but he had 6 seizures in an hour when we brought him in and it was seriously a question of can the er keep him alive for a few days for it to work. Add in that the med isn’t legal here yet so we had to get it from a group that supplies it from China. Our er vets were amazing and they did the shots for us while he was there. My little man is very happy and healthy with no brain damage that we know of which is incredibly surprising tbh. He has a bit of abnormalities in his blood work but his ultrasound was perfect. He and his brothers were incredibly sick and malnourished as babies. The runt weighed 200g at 4 weeks. A large newborn is 150g. Yeti weighed 300g. They all made it and became handsome healthy gentlemen

[@leelunk8235]

HE NEEDS MILK😂😊

[@Galaxie08]

​@@leelunk8235 No, milk actually isn't good for cats. Don't spread misinformation if you have no experience.

[@leelunk8235]

@@Galaxie08 MEOW, LIAR

[@Galaxie08]

@@leelunk8235 Get lost, troll. (I'm a foster 'parent' & had cats all my life.) Bye bye!

[@leelunk8235]

@@Galaxie08 MILK

[@jcspider7259]

Nationwide, tularemia is a relatively rare disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control, which has tracked its incidence since 1950. Between 2006 and 2016, there were an average of 172 reported cases per year across the country, with the highest incidence in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma where there are 25 to 35 cases per year in each state. In New England, tularemia is extremely rare apart from Martha’s Vineyard, which state statistics show reached a high of 16 confirmed and probable cases in 2008. The majority of cases, according to the state DPH, have been people who work outdoors, especially landscapers. Tularemia can be contracted in one of several ways. The disease is carried by certain ticks including the common dog tick (also called the wood tick). A person can also become infected after touching, handling, eating or being bitten by an infected animal, or having contact with water or soil that has been contaminated by an infected animal. The most serious form is pneumonic tularemia, which usually results from breathing dusts or aerosols containing the organism. Between 2000 and 2010, more than 40 people on Martha’s Vineyard were diagnosed with the pneumonic variety, according to a Department of Public Health update issued in May 2010. The last known death from tularemia on Martha’s Vineyard was in 2000, when a 43-year-old landscaper from Chilmark contracted the pneumonic form and failed to seek medical attention in time. Investigators suspected that David Kurth may have inhaled the remains or feces of an infected rodent while mowing a lawn near Squibnocket.

[@Julia_BH]

Nah that’s not true, I’ve had it and I have the lab results to prove it. I’m a CDC reported case so I’m not sure why that hasn’t been updated.

[@jcspider7259]

@@billwilson5341 Agreed

[@billwilson5341]

@@jcspider7259 The same paragraph is also shown with the video titled "Tainted Blood Leads To Lethal Discovery | Diagnosis Unknown | Real Responders" where I believe it truly belongs.

[@pete5668]

I would think Nantucket would have their fair share of cases. Ticks are all over the place there.

[@Lauriej117]

@@Julia_BH What’s not true?

[@happycows]

When I was in the military I ran a temperature that stayed at 106 and fluctuated very little from 106 degrees for 3 days straight. One sergeant forced me to go to the emergency room. They put 3 IV bags of fluid in me and said if I didn't urinate by the 4th bag they were admitting me. I finally had to go just as they were getting ready to administer the 4th IV bag. I recall having bronchitis or something like that and could barely talk for a month. I also recall feeling slightly delirious when I got back to the barracks.

[@leelunk8235]

WTF WAS IT

[@HobbyOrganist]

"Cottontail rabbits from Arkansas and Missouri were introduced to Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard, an island off the coast of Massachusetts, by game clubs in the late 1930s, and the first locally acquired cases of tularemia were reported shortly thereafter."

[@sunshinecoasttrailcam]

Nice work

[@jackandpiper]

This is just another example of money being more important than a persons life...smh

[@joycemapp2653]

So true....

[@scottyfox6376]

Wascally Wabbit did it..🐰

[@BlueBaeChai]

Yep

[@lydiarobinett6159]

Lives do depend on income. If the island doesn't make enough income it could become a ghost town. The residents would not be able to afford to stay

[@Seri-Katil]

@@lydiarobinett6159 so let's allow a disease to spread further and potentially kill more people because money is more important

[@laurabotts4064]

This documentary was very interesting and scary as well to see that however people are being infected that Tularemia is such a dangerous disease to contract and how quickly it moves through a human body.

[@jackrusselpupper1979]

Very FRIGHTENING!

[@Linda-xw9lj]

Body temp that high will cause brain damage

[@TheEightBitLink]

I love how the CDC went and ran their mower test. Imagine looking out the window and on your neighbor's law there's people in space suits mowing the lawn and waving sticks around the mower.

[@Chainsaw1999]

“Get a load of the new neighbors” 😂😂😂😂😂

[@gigi9301]

@@Chainsaw1999 Hey, at least they mow the lawn and no kids or dogs~Hallelujah

[@joycehancock3063]

They need to have a bunch of possums protected and released in the area.

[@Tyrannosaurus_Wrexx]

Probably would have done a lot to change the image of N. America’s only marsupial 👍🏾

[@ShieAyla]

Possums can carry tularemia unfortunately.

[@dianebass3193]

Yes they would make a quick job of getting rid of the ti Ms ! 😊

[@JustMe-gs9xi]

Chickens eat ticks too,,,, but wouldn't they become able to spread it also??? i mean by their poops????

[@kathleennorton2228]

​@@ShieAylaDo they? They hardly get rabies.

[@ALEIJADINHOPATRIOTA]

I never heard anything about this disease. Some bacteria are very resistent and Science has no easy job to fight them! Thank's God, this disease can be treated with strong antibiotica. There were many cases in the early 60's in Sweden too, but they were able to keep it all under control. THE MANKIND NEEDS SCIENCE MORE THEN EVER BEFORE!

[@touchofgrey5372]

Just a note: Bacteria is already the plural of bacterium = singular.

[@ALEIJADINHOPATRIOTA]

​@@touchofgrey5372 I thank you for this explanation. It was a "lapsus" of mine. I knew it before, but I forgot this. As we also know , antibioticum singular and antibiotica plural.

[@katiekane5247]

We trust THEM? They created much of the problems we currently have. We must remove greed from the equation. Big pharma has flat out said "there's little profit incentive in cures".

[@dianebass3193]

We need science that will not lie to us !!!

[@dianebass3193]

⁠ YOU are so correct and big pharma has use the worlds humans in an experiment causing millions of deaths and the cdc and who helped them do it along with governments ONLY IDIOTS Would TRUST ANY OF THESE MONEY GREEDY people EVER AGAIN !! ??? No , no trust is earned and once you cause people to loose it ! YOU POWER MONEY FREAKS CAN NEVER EVER BE TRUSTED AGAIN !!!

[@cathythoman]

I got a rare form of pneumonia in 2017. CDC came to my hospital room and ran tests and everything over a 3 week span. after 3 weeks in the hospital with multiple issues because of the pneumonia and surgery, sepsis, icu stay, you name it, they couldn't find the source. even now all I know is I was infected by another person somewhere in the major city I live in.

[@helookalikaman79]

I love the documentary interrupting my commercials.. Less info, MORE commercials...

[@darlenemichuk124]

I really love commercials. when are we going to see a site for just commercials. Oh i cannot wait.

[@lourias]

But our mission in life is to spend, spend, spend. God forbid that we learn anything of importance. 《Insert eyes 👀 rolling and a nasty bit of sarcasm spewing off of the lips》

[@lourias]

@@dannysmithers4845 that works on laptops and desktops, right? I venture that does not work on the cellphones.

[@JJSX09]

@@dannysmithers4845 To be fair I don't mind the odd advert here and there...say max 2 breaks every half hour , this program was on it's 6th break within 20 mins. Its just greed. All this is gonna do is make more folk download adblock. You're stupid Real Responders!

[@imjustsayin6562]

This shows.like watching paint dry with massive commercials.

[@ninez2698]

Man, you made the wise decision to marry your girl friend. She saved your life and she is as gold.

[@greendeane1]

Oh, poor poor, rich little Martha's Vineyard.

[@lindacarruthers3423]

Why are the parasitologist doctors trailing tick catching fabric along while walking by the disturbed grass wearing only shorts . I would have shiny pants cinched well at the ankles , and long shiny fabric sleeves with gloved hands .

[@KatWoman_]

I lived on the Vineyard then and the outbreak and cautions were in the papers and posted flyers. We were fortunate to have an infectious disease doctor. West Nile was just becoming a problem on the mainland then, too.

[@touchofgrey5372]

Here is a tip: To protect your small pets, use Diatomaceous Earth (Amorphous Silica) ! Mozart (my cat) and I live in a forest and he used to pick up a few ticks and fleas. I applied a generous amount of this powder on his fur - especially around his neck and head and back - and set him out again. After about an hour I called him in, and not one bug was on him. (Parts of his fur is pure white so this is how I could tell.) The best kind of Diatomaceous Earth is FOSSIL POWER, from Florida!

[@FloozieOne]

We trreated our whole house with it although it was a pretty big job! Not a flea since.

[@rachelmartin3631]

@@FloozieOne Boric acid also works in homes with a flea infestation. Spread it on your carpets, making sure to get corners, cover with a tarp and in 24 hours you are bug free.

[@BlueBaeChai]

Nice

[@borwin98]

Owning dogs and cats the flea battle was constant, 6 years ago I started to spray the rugs in the halway with food grade diatomaceous earth and have never seen a flea since, either on any of the pets or in the house.

[@mollyhorse]

This is brilliant..I shake it thru my chooks every month for mites...very effective

[@davidross4036]

Would Carter have waited a week before seeing a doc if a public health advisory had been issued after the abnormal “”spike” in case was first documented?

[@patriciaakinyombo2256]

U know men r very slow to go to the doctor

[@brynbarton9314]

Good question!

[@JustAnotherBuckyLover]

It wasn't that abnormal at first (other than being the pneumonic form). Tularaemia is endemic to the area so they have cases every year. If you live in an area where a disease like tularaemia is endemic, then you should have the common sense to go to the doctor when you're really sick - especially if you have pneumonia symptoms and a fever of 105-106 for nearly a week.

[@nickisnyder3450]

In Arizona where I live we have valley fever that lives in the dirt. It's not as deadly as this tularemia but I wonder if the tularemia doesn't also just reside in the dirt. It also seemed like the tick that bit the boy was a definite carrier.

[@coolguy2789]

Thank you for your services and this service of documentary videos

[@cheekybastard1018]

There are all sorts of diseases caused by ticks on Martha’s Vineyard, and yet so many people go there for vacation!!! SMH

[@annafreeman1923]

rich peoples playground

[@AdelineCowgirl]

They think people are impressed that they go somewhere overpriced 😂

[@paulabarnett3465]

Okay just wait a minute! First, the title of this video mentions bed bugs and a bite in the night. Then , in the description for this video it says that they finally decided that all of the people that got sick had gotten the sickness from the supplements that they were all taking that had been contaminated . But the video says that they were all sick from ticks by mowing yards where the ticks were. So which is it??

[@thomasblanchard6778]

Well, it seems likely to me that the ticks bit the residents while they were mowing the lawn, possibly after the residents brushed by shrubbery or foliage at the edge of their lawns.

[@deborahjellenburg4939]

Paula Barnett I wondered the same thing. Evidently they edited several video’s and spliced them together. 🧐🧐🧐

[@jcspider7259]

Indeed. Here's some useful info. Nationwide, tularemia is a relatively rare disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control, which has tracked its incidence since 1950. Between 2006 and 2016, there were an average of 172 reported cases per year across the country, with the highest incidence in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma where there are 25 to 35 cases per year in each state. In New England, tularemia is extremely rare apart from Martha’s Vineyard, which state statistics show reached a high of 16 confirmed and probable cases in 2008. The majority of cases, according to the state DPH, have been people who work outdoors, especially landscapers. Tularemia can be contracted in one of several ways. The disease is carried by certain ticks including the common dog tick (also called the wood tick). A person can also become infected after touching, handling, eating or being bitten by an infected animal, or having contact with water or soil that has been contaminated by an infected animal. The most serious form is pneumonic tularemia, which usually results from breathing dusts or aerosols containing the organism. Between 2000 and 2010, more than 40 people on Martha’s Vineyard were diagnosed with the pneumonic variety, according to a Department of Public Health update issued in May 2010. The last known death from tularemia on Martha’s Vineyard was in 2000, when a 43-year-old landscaper from Chilmark contracted the pneumonic form and failed to seek medical attention in time. Investigators suspected that David Kurth may have inhaled the remains or feces of an infected rodent while mowing a lawn near Squibnocket.

[@theirmom4723]

So...I wasn't the only one that read the preface before watching...

[@JustMe-gs9xi]

@kalkuttadrop6371 1 year ago That was a different episode, there was a mistake when it was uploaded that was corrected

[@mel7993]

This narrator has the most dramatic voice I have ever heard

[@dayapillai2230]

I recently learned that Guinea fowl love eating up ticks and smaller critters , cleaning up the area

[@sharker5809]

This island should have been shut down immediately. It is unbelievable that these people are more concerned about tourist dollars.

[@JJSX09]

Too many adverts and too close to each other. Give it a rest already!

[@osekerenfinda641]

That was Covid 19 back then!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@jsphillip60]

Great video. Ticks are arachnids (not insects), however.

[@patriotangle2653]

They should have tested the chemicals used to take care of the grass !!

[@JustAnotherBuckyLover]

Yeah... because chemicals cause bacterial infections. /s 🙄

[@HobbyOrganist]

I had pneumonia once but in the lower part of one lobe in the winter, I felt faint and had a persistant cough I thought was bronchitis, I went to the doctor and she did CT scan and said I had pneumonia but was more concerned about the tachycardia i lso had. She wanted to admit me but I said no, I have dogs at home alone, so they agreed to give me IV antibiotics outpatient, I had to go in at specified times over 3 days to get it done. Day 3 she tried a pill during the IV session, to deal with the tachycardia but it crashed my BP and heart rate way down, so they sent me to another hospital 45 miles away where they shocked the tachycardia away, and then treated the pneumonia. I dont remember having a fever, certainly not a high one, but it was miserable, just coughing once would spark another and another and another in rapid succession until the lungs were totally empty, and then trying to breathe in would cause another cough! I had to really focus and carefully just inhale slowly to get past the coughing rounds. They had a respiratory therapist come 2x a day, one of which was like 3 or 4 am, I'd be JUST dozing off on a horrible uncomfortable bed on my back which I never sleep on that way, and he'd wake me for therapy. I was there a few days, that was just the lower part of one lobe I can't imagine how it is with a fuly involved lung!

[@jeantaua9053]

I had parrot fever when I was younger and it effected me much the same way. I had 106 degree temperature and medical professionals were stumped by my illness. A urologist diagnosed it as parrot fever. I had it in may and i still was weak in December. My brother bought a parrakeet from some one who was not a qualified dealer.

[@JustMe-gs9xi]

Wow,,,,, you got that sick from a pet bird,,,, WoW,,,, i have to read on this. Pls. keep rested and take care of your health, i had lyme's disease,,, it took 3-5 yrs and i barely remember most of it it was so bad. I don't trust drs. I do have one symptom that never went away,, Extreme light sensitivity. i just live with it. wear glasses with tint, and stay away from big fluorescent stores,,, the migraines and the lights part was awful...

[@lisashackelford5951]

Huh

[@J-ZIM]

I'm surprised they were wearing shorts when collecting the ticks in the grass. SMH

[@JustMe-gs9xi]

Well,,, in some ways it is easier to see them right away, Because they can crawl under your pants,, ICK!! but i Do hear you, The white socks are good,, but that man took a risk with just the hair being on his legs,, /// When i go out here in New England, i do all i can to prevent them getting on me. BUT when i come inside,, I take off EVERYTHING, and check my entire body,,, esp upper back, sides,, hair. brush my hair. I take no chances, i recovered from that dreaded lyme ill ness. They USED to just come out in May and be gone by end of June... BUT now i don't count on that anymore,,, smh,

[@GrammaJo360]

When my son was a teenager,he got tularemia. One of his favorite things to do was take his 22 and go out, hunting rabbits. He was skinning his rabbit and a bone broke, and it jabbed into his finger. In a few hours it was very swollen and he was very very sick. When we took him to our doctor, who had been practicing for many years. He heard the story and gave my son an injection and put him on antibiotics immediately. He didn’t even wait for the lab test to come back because he was familiar with it and knew what it was. My son healed very quickly because our good doctor treated him so quickly. Another teenage boy in his school also got the same disease about the same day, only his turned to pneumonia, and they almost lost him. It is a very nasty disease.

[@debrabarber3483]

I think I saw a found footage film based on this. It was called "The Bay" and the only real difference was you can't see the bugs irl. Even if it was a coincidence, being stuck in a situation like this would be very scary. You could be fine, but get very sick in 20 hours or less. At least with Covid, we had time. Most people didn't even come close to crashing that quickly.

[@saftabracha1140]

Haven’t thought of mosquitoes

[@c8Lorraine1]

First concern is not panic tourists because they rely on tourist $$$$$$. Priorities nothing to do with medical concern for the patients

[@BlueBaeChai]

Yep

[@kathyfragassi8399]

People first above money especially. To prevent disease spread outside of the Island. People have a right to know...Immediately. As a tourist, I would expect to be protected and made aware of any deadly disease. To hear that they didn't want to hurt the economy is very much worrisome and appalling.

[@j.vi-geant6784]

Very good questions and observations made on this thread, thinking people. These are good mysteries solved by the end of the episode.

[@rosemarydudley9954]

J. Vigeant...this one wasn't solved though, was it? Only guess work.

[@rocknromance78]

So, still no idea on how this started or how to stop it?... thanks for wasting nearly an hour of my life.

[@shortchanged.]

It started from bio research and hence why bedbugs have made a co.e back they was breed and released to spead disease id guess for population control and covered and or done by drug companies...

[@darlenemichuk124]

Really no conclusion? iI don't believe you!

[@darlenemichuk124]

@@shortchanged. Another population cuntrol thing. I thought bed bugs came to be when guv. banned DEET. Myself i have a metal shelf redo into a bed frame, no box spring. Therefore, no body heat in bed. Why don't Pest Cuntrol know this? Oh that's right, job creation......................................................................................................

[@idolina76]

So Diagnosis UNKNOWN didn't tell you anything?

[@anitainglis2005]

Maybe but I didn't know this even existed, I found it very useful and interesting, I wondered if it was in the soil like anthrax this can stay in the soil for years. Take care 🙂

[@alinadobro]

Looks like pneumonia has so many varieties of virusus to it. The same with the flu and COVID-19. Thanks for the great documentary. We had to learn a lot how protect ourselves but still known just a very small portion...

[@marleneholloway7775]

A dr in Newzealand claims no such thing as viruses . Seems like she thinks it is bacteria. Her name is Sam Bailey.

[@mse7501]

Illegals working the fields.

[@juliebarks3195]

Can't blame the shark this time.

[@mariataglaris2701]

May God always have his Guardian Angels around you to protect you and those are that are awak❤❤

[@geraldinesera8915]

Sad fact if PROTECTING TOURISM FOR WEEKS meant the poor gentleman died. I saw the same thing happen on Vancouver Island, Canada, and unknowing, ILL TOURISTS WENT HOME TO EUROPE, U.S. MAINLAND Canada and all the pertinent people knew a deadly bacteria was breeding on coastal trees in Rathtrevor Beach Park. The greed/fear associated anything impacting financial realities in tourism should be confronted with manslater charges.

[@surveyguyor8958]

the CDC and the government do not like to follow the science. I think we learned that now.

[@ailleananaithnid2566]

I didn’t think I despised anything as much as I do maggots (and flies) but ticks join that list. They could be extinct tomorrow and the world would be better off for it. They cover the local deer, making them miserable. Disgusting little things!

[@kionamcnutt8630]

Maggots actually serve a purpose but roaches, bed bugs, and fleas????!!!! Mosquitos too!!! I'm gonna ask God about it someday.

[@kathleenhebert2278]

All of the above- so grosssss, purpose or not !

[@chrisragnar1]

Without warning, except for all the warnings..

[@momsmushroomsjodyfoster5786]

I live in West Michigan where it’s completely overrun with deer and ticks!! Filthy little vampires are difficult to avoid

[@Retroscoop]

Tularemia... Sounds like a good album title for a death metal band, generally these rough guys love such frivolous names....

[@laurenallison9391]

I’ve had Lyme disease, it SUCKS. Has fevers for like 2 months!!

[@virginiafry9854]

@13:45 - those 2 X-rays are from 2 different patients, one of whom has fluid build up around both lungs (probably cardiac in origin) and the second one shows inflammation of the right middle lobe of the lung, which wouldn’t necessarily be severe enough to present in the same way as the 2 mentioned patients in the video.

[@anitaadams2422]

Paula you should have called 911 for Patrick

[@rememberbancroft1475]

at Martha's vineyard ? he'd still be waiting...

[@rosalynjones6974]

Yes

[@Fonziedaz1]

The poor man 😢😔😥

[@kkdoc7864]

Another use for ivermectin lol

[@tamekkaknuth9612]

Thankful you have someone that actually loves you

[@jeanb.5405]

Sounds like Martha's Vinyard needs to get some more Opossums there - they are great tick eaters.

[@MG.1226]

whattt so frustrating that they did not find the culprit! 🤦‍♀️

[@Brendonbosy]

they shoulda hired quint

[@surveyguyor8958]

the CDC and the government do not like to follow the science. I think we learned that now.

[@jamiegordon5389]

Ya at least they are doing as much as possible to stop the disease

[@anitaadams2422]

CHEMTRAILS CHEMTRAILS CHEMTRAILS

[@pantyflash]

Like, even though your island is hosed with tularemia, you can still enjoy it (the island) to some extent. Way to go, babes!

[@JustAnotherBuckyLover]

It's always "hosed with tularaemia" though. It's an endemic illness there and was long before this outbreak.

[@EvlEgle]

If you think twolereumia is bad try threelereumia.

[@deb921110]

The description box indicates it was caused by a contaminated dietary supplement sold in health food stores across the country yet they don't tell you what that supplement was! In my opinion it's so irresponsible to not provide the full information.

[@kalkuttadrop6371]

That was a different episode, there was a mistake when it was uploaded that was corrected

[@Paradoxonification]

Ticks should be erradicated from this planet

[@amysmith5448]

Bedbugs are worse than ticks!

[@vxCOCOxv]

Ticks are crawling mosquitos, they are absolutely disgusting to me. Mosquitos and ticks need to be either destroyed, or altered to not be able to carry diseases. I near barf seeing a tick, they truly are yucky.

[@vanessav6918]

Agree my daughter get Lyme disease

[@katiekane5247]

We should stop messing up the balance of nature. Lyme disease was purposefully released by those conducting biological research. Birds need bug protein to raise babies.

[@touchofgrey5372]

@@katiekane5247 But not ticks! They can thrive on other bugs. Lyme disease was there a long, long time before man was on Earth. (From deer!)

[@kevinhoward9593]

I think the sickest i ever been was when I had pneumonia. which I had twice in my life. i felt like I was drowning in my own body.

[@penelopewebling1085]

Surprised they didn't shut the world down

[@monkeynumbernine]

They need the worker drones to keep paying taxes and doing their jobs.

[@laurenallison9391]

Yay~ MV. I live on the SouthCoast of MA, Marion, MA! I’m so curious about this- never heard of this? Maybe my parents did though. Summer’s on the SouthCoast is the BEST!!

[@hi.moriarty]

What about feces and urine from contaminated animals left on the grass an soil!?? CDC, I am deeply disappointed in such linear problem solving.What was the boy playing near, or with? Do ticks excrete fecal matters as well? If so, would they not leave the bacteria behind on the bark and grasses? What is the life span outside of a host? Hearing that it could be inhaled, my first thought was how disease is transmitted by bats and rats. Did they really not consider that form of delivery?

[@reneemb2]

It said at the end that they couldn't find it in grass clippings but had found it in fecal matter I believe. They can't figure out how it became airborne

[@hi.moriarty]

@@reneemb2 I missed that part then. Thanks.

[@ailleananaithnid2566]

Tiptoepoms i am sure the experts are deeply troubled about your disappointment. Had they just consulted a few armchair epidemiologists this would have been resolved in 72 hours. SMH. I am curious about why it seemed to attack males. Were there any female patients?

[@hi.moriarty]

@@ailleananaithnid2566 Hahaha...Awesome!

[@hi.moriarty]

@@ailleananaithnid2566 Good catch on the gender!

[@ZA-mb5di]

5:24 they said pneumonia here and bacteria at the beginning and I thought legionnaires at the beginning but it was immediately reinforced when I heard pneumonia

[@Mrs.TJTaylor]

Guinea Fowl for tick eradication.

[@NetRolller3D]

29:46 DON'T. SHOCK. A FLATLINE!

[@NetRolller3D]

On a related note, the defibrillator doesn't "jump-start" the heart - instead, it works by power-cycling the heart, analogous to unplugging and re-plugging electronics that developed a transient fault.

[@MariettaFarley]

Wondering if dried tick urine or poop on dirt, grass, or brush could be responsible for inhaled bacteria? Or perhaps the same but from an infected bird or rodent?

[@JustAnotherBuckyLover]

Actually, you're right. They later discovered the cases were caused by (at least in the landscapers etc) mowing over dried poop from infected animals. That broke it up, they inhaled the dust with bacteria and boom. Pneumonic tularaemia. But in fact, it was only in 2015 they were able to confirm that mowing was, in fact, a method of infection.

[@demetradecember205]

Why were the parasite specialists kneeling in the long grass that harbors ticks? 😬

[@ericaschannel2599]

Omg as soon as they said Martha’s Vineyard I’ve seen this before on investigation discovery

[@lisashackelford5951]

They dont do these types of shows

[@dessiewatkins1006]

I like to see the sense humor in some of the commenter's posts. Death and sickness are not laughing matters but fear, panic and ignorance do not create remedies for such.

[@esthermensah5346]

I further believe that, having followed the effect of COVID - 19, it seems to me that, the reason behind the high fatality in the infection of titaleamia, is the possibly, the result of cytokine storm & the therapeutic treatment of COVID - 19 may well control the situation, in way of steroid therapy.

[@Gingersnap-uv9rg]

Looking for ticks while walking thru tall grass with shorts on??! Really?

[@markmitchell450]

I'm sure that the ticks will find you

[@janetflier6192]

Sure you couldn’t have more ads???

[@XoADREADNOUGHT]

I had babesiosis (mentioned early on). Worst flu like symptoms ever, ever 42 days - for exactly one week. Could not walk or talk. Vomitted every half hour to an hour. Throat so sore I couldn't swallow spit despite the vomit. Fever of 102 F. Worst muscle aches ever. Could not stand they hurt so much. Brain fog and headaches. PROFUSE sweating. To the point that my family had to change my sheets at least once in a night as I soaked them. Massive dehydration from all the sweating and vomitting. Worst experience of my life. Never gotten anything 1/10th as bad as that. Wanted to die at one point, until I finally got a diagnosis. Was on some very nasty meds for 9 months. But it got rid of the cycle of babesia flare ups.

[@gondolacrescent5]

I figured it out, the disease was being caused by manicured lawns.

[@mollyhorse]

More so on the rich peoples lawns??? Lol

[@darlenemichuk124]

@@mollyhorse You bet Honey. Unbelievable ain't it?

[@KNellyy]

Lol why did I think that everyone was just going to stop mowing entirely and everything was going to be overgrown

[@Pontisusan7]

Poor Chris is burning up and they have a sweatshirt on with a blanket around him. They said the doctor checks for bites, but couldn't find any. Didn't even take off his clothes. I don't get this.

[@biddibee3526]

Susan Ponti it's a reenactment.

[@rosemarydudley9954]

Susan Ponti...they should have put him in a cool bath and gradually added more cold water...

[@aprilwolfe-scott8565]

It's a reinactment.

[@Marlysa-yt4xk]

My friend Ben knutson also had tularemia. I was so worried. But luckily he survived.

[@sandrawallen6860]

They didn’t want to start a panic in tourist season?? Sounds like concealing the shark attack in JAWS.

[@MariaTorres-hc5uq]

Well, when Martha's Vineyard stared as Amity, there was also a problem with teeth...big teeth...from a fish...a big fish... Looks like the "Summer Dollars" still rule.

[@scottyfox6376]

Are we going to need a bigger boat ? 🦈

[@kellyweingart3692]

lol

[@MariaTorres-hc5uq]

@@scottyfox6376 No, what all Americans need, rich or poor, is a good free nacional health service... Something that won't ruin you and your family. Mine is a small poor European country, but we all get free, or almost free, medical service, the rich and poor alike. The hospitals are old but clean, and the doctors and nurses are good. It's basic but free. Believe me, I've been battling breast cancer since 2003, and always used the public service. Best wishes from Lisnob Portugal.

[@BackyardButcher]

​@@MariaTorres-hc5uq that sounds great for about 2 seconds. That would never sustain the United States

[@sonjastarr1364]

And how much do you give up in higher taxes and personal freedoms to get that "free" healthcare?

[@ericdrisgula3879]

The amount of commercials throughout all this channels videos is intolerable and a sign of pure greed.

[@marymccarthy5776]

better off just turning the volume down!

[@scottyfox6376]

If you don't have add block then I suggest you slide to the end of the video then back to restart & you'll have no adds.😀

[@markmitchell450]

Drag the video to the end then hit replay ads dissappear it's not rocket science but there is a knack of when you restart the video

[@brandonadkins7652]

At the end he says they found it in animal material. Does that also mean excrement? If so an animal that’s infected craps on the yard, the person mows it, and then it’s airborne. Did they ever find a cause? I looked for other videos on it and didn’t find any about Martha’s Vineyard, and the cause.

[@lymarie1974]

No, they never found a cause 😢

[@53mandevilla]

No, they did & probably hid it like they do everything else! 😢😢😢

[@macaylacayton2915]

when I watching this I was suspecting it having been tossed up from the soil and subsquently inhaled actually, mostly because of landscaping being somewhat common among the people, aside from the kid but soil could still explain his too