Word: lyme
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...went in there for a pinched nerve once, and they found that I had lyme disease," says Fred J. Leidner '95. "They caught the disease in time...
Perhaps the most successful awareness campaign has been conducted by the Lyme Borreliosis Foundation. In 1988 Lyme disease was scarcely known even in the area around Lyme, Connecticut. Karen Forschner, who had the Lyme-disease symptom of a bull's-eye rash during pregnancy, started the foundation with her husband Tom shortly after the birth of their only child, a son who was finally diagnosed with the disease. "Using the media is definitely a part of our strategy," says Tom Forschner. The husband-and-wife team has captured the attention of all the daytime talk shows and most newspapers...
...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...
...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...