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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...
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...
Joseph Dipaoma, 58, of Bedford, N.Y., never saw the pinhead-size tick that bit him. But there was no mistaking the angry red rash that blossomed on his forearm. He had Lyme disease, which three weeks on antibiotics quickly cured. Still, five years later, he sometimes wonders if the infection is really gone. "I get a lot of aches and pains," says the part-time delicatessen worker. "In the back of my mind, there's this question: Could it be a residue of the Lyme? Or have I been standing behind the counter too long...
Twenty years after the first cases of Lyme disease were reported in and around Old Lyme, Conn., the epidemic of tick-borne infections seems to be taking a detour into the twilight zone. Doctors know how to diagnose it--most of the time. They can even cure it--most of the time. Pharmaceutical companies are working on two promising vaccines that could be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration later this year. Biologists have even come up with some ingenious methods for controlling the tick population that carries Lyme. But no one is satisfied, not the victims...
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...