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Take care: uptick in Lyme disease likely.(CR health)
Populations of the ticks that spread Lyme disease are expected to increase in the Northeast U.S. and spread out across the Midwest and South this summer, experts say. Lyme disease is also appearing in parts of Canada, Europe, and Asia. So if you venture off pavement into tall grass or the woods in infected zones, be sure to take precautions, even if you've had Lyme disease before. "It's not like chicken pox or measles, where you get it once and you can't get it again/ says Phillip Baker, Ph.D., program officer for Lyme disease at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Md.
If diagnosed and treated promptly, Lyme disease can usually be cured with a course of antibiotics. A quick diagnosis may be difficult, however, since the disease has highly variable symptoms. About 20 percent of victims never develop the best-known early symptom, the bull's-eye rash. Other early symptoms can include headache, chills and fever, acute joint pain, and sore muscles.
A small number of patients who get the correct diagnosis and treatment can have a recurrence of symptoms after a year or more. "It's hard to tell ...
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- Magazine article from: Current Health 2, a Weekly Reader publication Monroe, Judy March 1, 2004 700+ words
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- Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science January 1, 2008 700+ words
Lyme Disease Lyme disease is an infection transmitted by the bite of ticks carrying the spiral...it is recognized early and treated properly with antibiotics. Lyme disease is a vector-borne disease, which means it is delivered from...
- Lyme disease puzzling Texans.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Mitchell, Mitch September 1, 2002 700+ words
...FORT WORTH, Texas _ Many Texans diagnosed with Lyme disease tell the same story. They say they never felt...and multiple sclerosis before learning she had Lyme disease. Whether Lyme disease is prevalent in Texas has caused a dispute in...
- Lyme Disease.
- Clinical Reference Systems July 1, 1999 700+ words
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- Lyme Disease.(Brief Article)
- Clinical Reference Systems November 1, 1999 700+ words
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- Chronic Lyme disease research center established at Columbia...
- Magazine article from: Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine Cohen, Marcus A. April 1, 2007 700+ words
...we are opening the Columbia University Lyme Disease Research Center, a state-of-the...spiral-shaped bacteria) that cause Lyme disease. The New Jersey-based national Lyme Disease Association and the Connecticut-based...
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- Magazine article from: Townsend Letter Rosner, Bryan January 1, 2009 700+ words
As the author of four Lyme disease books, I've been researching Lyme disease as a full time profession for seven years now...It all started with a review of The Top 10 Lyme Disease Treatments (a book I wrote in 2007) that appeared...
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- Clinical Reference Systems Schmitt, B.D. January 1, 2006 700+ words
What is Lyme disease? Lyme disease is the most common disease spread by a tick bite. About 12...because of this pest is an overreaction to the small risk. Lyme disease has been divided into three stages. If treated with antibiotics...