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Lyme disease puzzling Texans.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
FORT WORTH, Texas _ Many Texans diagnosed with Lyme disease tell the same story.
They say they never felt the tick bite that triggered their tailspin into flulike symptoms and misdiagnoses. Many faced decades of illnesses and got sicker and sicker, and some eventually became crippled. A few say they came close to death before finding physicians who recognized the disease.
"I just wish they would listen to us," said Karen Hudson, a 35-year-old businesswoman who lives in Haltom City. She was diagnosed with arthritis, lupus and multiple sclerosis before learning she had Lyme disease.
Whether Lyme disease is prevalent in Texas has caused a dispute in the medical community. Some researchers say Lyme disease may be confused with Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness, or STARI, a mysterious malady in Texas and other states south of Maryland. It causes the same type of rash and reacts well to antibiotics, as Lyme does. Unlike ...
- Lyme disease prevention and treatment.(THE EFFECTIVE PHYSICIAN)
- Magazine article from: Internal Medicine News Golden, William E. Hopkins, Robert H. December 1, 2006 700+ words
...locally acquired cases of Lyme disease south of Maryland. HGA...distribution like that of Lyme disease. The clinical illness...illness, abbreviated as STARI, is not thought to be...the risk of developing Lyme disease. An erythematous skin...
- Famous Mineral Localities: the Trepca mine, Stari Trg, Kosovo.
- Magazine article from: The Mineralogical Record Feraud, Jean Maliqi, Gani Meha, Vjollca July 1, 2007 700+ words
...Trep-cha" or "Trept-sha") lead-zinc mine lies near Stari Trg village in Trepca Valley, Kosovo, in the middle of the...previous name of the mine under Serbian administration was Trepca, Stari Trg, which is the designation still used in all the mineralogical...
- Stari sat.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Obradovic, Nadezda January 1, 1998 700+ words
The collection Stari sat (The Old Clock) comprises six stories. The longest, "Biography and Its Shadow," focuses on an emigrant named Paul...
- Lyme disease: this tick-borne illness can fool even experts. Don't let it ruin...
- Magazine article from: Current Health 2, a Weekly Reader publication Monroe, Judy March 1, 2004 700+ words
...to doctors for more tests. The diagnosis: Lyme disease. For some people, Lyme disease is a minor illness. They run a fever and...quickly and are cured. For other people, Lyme disease is a serious illness. They can develop major...
- Lyme Disease
- 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...
- 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...
- Lyme disease.(Causes and Treatment)(Disease/Disorder overview)
- 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...
- Lyme disease: simple bacteria or complicated parasite?
- 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...
