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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...
INTO THE WOODS WE GO Outdoor lovers may soon tick Lyme disease off their list of worries. Two competing groups of researchers have developed a pair of similar vaccines against the deer tick-borne disease. Each team plans to seek fda approval...
WHAT'S MY LYME? Doctors have isolated an antibody in spinal fluid that allows them to quickly detect if Lyme bacteria have spread from the site of the bite to the nervous system. Treated early, Lyme disease is easy to cure...
...statistics that show an "all-time high" of cases of Lyme disease in the U.S. represent only a tiny fraction of actual cases. Rather than the 16,000 cases your chart showed, there are more than half a million, and perhaps even as many as 2 million Americans who are infected with the disease, but not all of them are aware of it. Millions more may go to their death never knowing their lives were shattered by Lyme disease, misdiagnosed as one of the illnesses that Lyme mimics and camouflages itself as. Lyme disease ranks as one of the fastest...