Word: lyme
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White-tailed deer are suburban creatures, and a surge in the deer population as forests have regrown in the Northeast offers one reason that Lyme disease has hit hard in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania and lower New England. Wisconsin and Minnesota have had smaller outbreaks, and so, though the ticks are a different species, has Northern California...
...approach has so far proved successful only in mice and has yet to be tested in humans. Some resolute citizens are said to chew garlic before venturing outdoors, hoping wistfully that what works for vampires will also drive off ticks. Ken Liegner, a Westchester County, N.Y., doctor with many Lyme disease patients, has invented a "deer gazebo" that would lure whitetails with a salt lick or apple mash and shower them with pesticide. The rumor persists that Lyme-infected veterinarians have dosed themselves with canine Lyme vaccine not tested in humans...
Antibiotic treatment usually works fairly well in the early stages, but the suffering of a few patients with advanced Lyme disease does not respond to conventional cures. So a dangerous and unconventional therapy has come into use. Dr. Henry Heimlich of Cincinnati, known for developing the Heimlich maneuver to relieve choking, observed that Lyme disease resembles syphilis in that it is caused by a corkscrew-shaped spirochete. He knew of an outdated treatment for the late stages of syphilis in which patients were deliberately infected with malaria and then cured of it. It was believed once that malarial fevers cooked...
...Nancy Modiano, a 30-year-old Hamilton, N.J., resident, agrees with Heimlich. She thinks she contracted Lyme disease as a teenager. By last year she was helpless, subject to vomiting and seizures, her joints so swollen that she couldn't operate her wheelchair. She flew to Mexico City last November and was injected with malaria. For 35 days her fever would spike to 108 degrees, then drop to 95 degrees. Yet two weeks after the induced malaria was cured, she was learning to walk again. Though she still has some Lyme symptoms, her recovery continues. She sums up the experience...
...HEALTH Lyme disease: those ticks are taking the fun out of summer...