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...LYME LIGHT...
Your article "Tick, Tick, Tick" stated that most of the time doctors know how to diagnose and cure Lyme disease [HEALTH, July 28]. I challenge that. In many states throughout the U.S., doctors not only don't know how to diagnose Lyme disease, they refuse even to consider it a possible cause of severe illness among their patients. As a result, Lyme has become one of the most seriously underdiagnosed diseases in this country. Lyme victims have gone undiagnosed and untreated for years, leading to chronic, debilitating and sometimes deadly consequences. What is needed is much better information about this...
...write from the trenches, the war against Lyme disease goes on. The battles are many, victories few. Lyme disease victims are the lepers of the 20th century. Those who are not infected want the victims to be banished to their own little colonies, out of sight, out of mind. It is time for the victims to get out of the trenches and let politicians, doctors, scientists and insurance companies know they have a right to be treated--with antibiotics if necessary and certainly with dignity. PAT SMITH, President Lyme Disease Association of New Jersey Jackson...
While the Internet may be the biggest force behind science's democratization, it's not the only one. Local health groups have long used little more than flyers and phone banks to document emerging illnesses like Lyme disease or recruit volunteers to test new AIDS medications. Archaeologists increasingly rely on the help of lay people who pay for the privilege of accompanying the scientists on digs. And even in summer, the National Audubon Society is looking forward to its Christmas bird count, a winter tradition in which thousands of volunteers survey the ornithological fauna near their homes in order...
Meanwhile, a group of biologists in central Texas may have come up with at least a partial solution to the Lyme problem. "We call it the four-poster," says John George, a tick specialist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Kerrville. It's a bin full of corn surrounded by specially angled rollers. As deer push in to eat the corn, the rollers coat the animal's head and neck with a pesticide that targets mites and ticks. Pilot studies on 50-acre plots have produced a 95% drop in the local tick population. "What's neat about this...