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06/04/2017 / By Bridgette Wilcox

Warning sign: Daughter’s Lyme disease started with headaches

What seemed like a run-of-the-mill case of headaches and joint pain turned out to be chronic Lyme disease in an eight-year old girl, who now has to live with the effects of the debilitating disease for the rest of her life. The girl’s mother, Jamie Buss, shared in a story on KHou.com that her daughter Ella suffered […]

05/12/2017 / By Bridgette Wilcox

Is 2017 the year of the Tick? Scientists predict a surge in Lyme disease cases

Scientists have urged those in the Northeastern United States to prepare for a rise in Lyme disease cases this year. The forecast comes at the heels of a population surge among white-footed mice which serve as hosts for Lyme-bearing ticks, USAToday.com reported. Scientists trace the upsurge in ticks to an acorn abundance in 2015, which caused the mice boom, […]

05/09/2017 / By Tracey Watson

Tragic: Mother shocked it took SEVEN years to diagnose daughter’s Lyme disease

According to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Lyme disease is the fastest growing vector-borne illness in the United States. Vector-borne illnesses are transmitted between humans, or from animals to humans, by living organisms like ticks, mosquitoes, flies, triatomine bugs and fleas. Possibly the most famous of these is malaria, which […]

04/17/2017 / By Vicki Batts

Lyme disease is about to explode across North America….with no cures in sight

Biologists say that 2017 is going to be a big year for Lyme disease, and that the condition could ravage the United States and other parts of North America. The culprit? An explosion in mice populations across the country, but particularly in the Northeast. But what do mice have to do with Lyme disease? Ticks […]

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