The Huffington Post : declared in What the Media Don't Tell You About Lyme Disease (But Should)

There's another pattern in Lyme disease reporting that I and many others in the Lyme community find interesting. May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month, and during the month I will investigate these and other questions about Lyme. With respect to prevalence-versus-funding discrepancies between Zika and Lyme, a CDC spokesperson stated: "Lyme disease is a public health priority for CDC, but we don't determine Congressional funding levels. For reasons unknown, the federal agency charged with public health very rarely addresses Lyme disease despite its extreme prevalence and severity. Beyond interviewing celebrities who write about Lyme disease as part of book promotion tours, do we ever consider how these stories addup?

Kelly Osbourne Comments on Yolanda Hadid's Lyme Disease

What annoys me is this is a real, real disease. Like Kelly, Yolanda will also talk about her struggle with Lyme disease in her upcoming memoir, Believe Me: My Battle with the Invisible Disability of Lyme Disease, set for release September 12. I don't understand how anyone could think that the life you have to live with Lyme disease is glamorous." If anyone knows how hard it can be to battle Lyme disease, it's Yolanda Hadid, who has been very open about her struggle with the illness. "Since I know firsthand how awfully debilitating it is, I know who really has it and who is just trying to prolong their 15 minutes.


And we end up with forests packed with mice — mice that are chronically infected with Lyme and covered with ticks. So that mouse plague last year means there is going to be a Lyme plague this year. Since the early '90s, reported cases of Lyme disease have tripled, to about 30,000 cases each year. The number of critters scampering around the forest in the summer correlates to the Lyme cases the following summer, they've reported. "We're anticipating 2017 to be a particularly risky year for Lyme," Ostfeld says.


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