Word: lyme
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...Nino's drenching rains. But they could be a booby trap for outdoors-loving Americans. Ready to pounce out of the dense vegetation on any passing body will be another effect of the moist, warmer-than-usual weather: battalions of speck-size ticks carrying the summertime scourge called Lyme disease...
Although the number of new cases of Lyme seemed to have peaked in the U.S. at 16,000 in 1996, public health officials are warning that this year's total could soar. Since the first mysterious outbreak of arthritis-like pain and fever among residents near the Connecticut community of Lyme in 1975, at least 100,000 Americans have been infected with the disease. Now endemic throughout the Northeast as well as parts of the Midwest and the West Coast, Lyme disease is caused by a corkscrew-shaped bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi. It is spread by the bite of ticks...
COLD-BLOODED CURE? Scientists may have discovered an unlikely way to fight Lyme disease: use lizard blood. Though a vaccine or treatment is still far off, early reports show that when infected ticks are bathed in lizard blood, the Lyme-disease bacteria are destroyed...
TICK TALK Are ticks licked? Not quite. But Lyme disease cases this year are down 36%, compared with 1996. Why? People may be better at keeping the bugs at bay, and for now the tick population seems to have declined...
Hancock attended high school in Old Lyme, Connecticut, where soccer and track were his sports of choice. His life was to take new direction in 1993 when a close friend introduced him to bicycle racing...