Word: lyme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dwellers, wild deer are perhaps the ultimate symbol of bucolic country life. But for many who live in the country and the suburbs, the animals are little better than rats with hooves, pests that voraciously eat gardens and crops, collide with cars and play host to ticks that carry Lyme disease. From a turn-of-the-century low of 500,000, white-tailed deer in the continental U.S. have rebounded to a population of 25 million -- about as many as there were before hunting, land-clearing Europeans colonized America -- and that is just too many to coexist comfortably with modern...
...premise of The Big Hype,the latest novel from Avery Corman, author of Oh, God! and Kramer vs. Kramer. Paul Brock is a successful script writer who's fed up with Hollywood and with his lack of creative control over his scripts. No more movies-of-the-week about Lyme disease--he's going to finish his novel. As he soon discovers, however, the publishing business is just as hype-ridden as Hollywood. No one is willing to take a chance to Brock; they'll publish his book, but won't go out of their way to promote...
...suburbs and rural areas, summer is Lyme-disease season, prompting the flurry of instructions now issuing forth from doctors' offices on how to avoid the illness. It's wise to pay attention: the symptoms can range from joint pain and lethargy in mild cases to debilitating arthritis and even heart damage. But thwarting Lyme disease is not so easy, as anyone knows who has ever searched for the poppy seed-size tick that carries it, or for its unmistakable rash -- which sometimes never appears at all. Tests sometimes don't reveal an infection, and symptoms may not show...
...medical researchers at Yale and Harvard say they have come up with a vaccine that appears to protect against Lyme disease -- in mice, at least. Not only that: when infected ticks bit vaccinated mice in the lab, the disease bacteria inside the ticks were killed as well. That was totally unexpected; if it works the same way in humans, the vaccine could lead not only to the prevention of Lyme disease in humans but to its complete elimination in the wild...
...based diagnostic tests are also under development for Lyme disease, tuberculosis and viral meningitis. Present tests for tuberculosis, which involve culturing and growing the bacteria, take up to a month to confirm a diagnosis. PCR can do the job in a few hours. Current tests are unable to distinguish viral meningitis quickly from the far more dangerous bacterial form of the disease, which is most common in infancy. As a result, all babies found to have meningitis are treated as if they had the more lethal form. With a PCR diagnosis, those with viral meningitis could be spared unnecessary hospitalization...