As tick season hits, Lyme disease patients say they need better care stat : CBC

"A lot of people who … carry a diagnosis of Lyme disease and are getting treated for [it], do not have Lyme disease by standard scientific medical criteria," he said. After six months of debilitating symptoms, she says, she consulted another infectious disease doctor who was convinced she had Lyme disease. She says she needs more antibiotics, but most Canadian doctors won't prescribe a longer stretch of antibiotics to Lyme disease patients. According to Montreal's public health department, cases of Lyme disease in Quebec jumped to 180 in 2016 from just 32 five years earlier. Lyme disease advocates insist those numbers would be dramatically higher if diagnosis methods were improved.




"Tracking the number of Lyme disease cases is challenging," says county Public Health Director James O. 'Emergent Area' for TicksThe 2015 Paul Smith's study named St. Lawrence County as an emergent area for Lyme disease. St. Lawrence County has a higher rate of Lyme disease than most of the country, according to Dr. Daniel Soule, an infectious disease specialist whose office is in Canton. Adult ticks feed on deer, but the nymphs, or "teenage ticks," prefer to attach to mice where they become infected with Lyme disease. Lyme disease can cause long-term fever, chills, sweats, muscle aches, fatigue, nausea and joint pain.

Letter: Anti-vax minority put us at risk for Lyme disease

I commend the Sentinel's May 25 article on UCSC professor Marm Kilpatrick's research on the rise and spread of Lyme disease. I was vaccinated against Lyme, and I've never contracted the disease in 40 years of field research. Unfortunately, humans cannot get the Lyme vaccine because the vocal few won in this case. The sad truth now is that if you were a dog or a horse you'd be less likely to contract Lyme than humans are, because our pets can be vaccinated against Lyme. Occasionally, we reject letters simply because we've had so many on the same subject.


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