According to the CDC, Lyme disease patients are most likely to have illness onset in June, July or August. "When Lyme disease is misdiagnosed and goes untreated it has a profound, devastating impact on the person's well-being," explained Caroline Calderone Baisley. Although an expanding rash on the body is an early sign of Lyme disease, not all cases of the disease exhibit the rash. The cost of tick testing is $65.00, which includes identifying the bacterium that causes Lyme disease and the protozoan organism that causes Babesiosis. In 2015, Connecticut reported 1,873 confirmed cases of Lyme disease and 668 probable cases.
"Get to a physician" - ex-Lunenburg councillor Brian Davis' Lyme Disease warning
He was bitten a second time four years ago and developed the classic red 'bullseye' rash associated with Lyme disease. But the antibiotics did not completely eliminate Lyme disease from Davis' system. According to Health Canada, Lyme disease symptoms include an irregular heartbeat, dizziness, muscle and joint pains, confusion, paralysis and nervous system malfunction. Today, the one-time marathon runner cannot lift the toes on his left foot and has trouble walking as Lyme disease bacteria attacked his nervous system. Davis himself did visit a doctor when a tick bit him six years ago and was prescribed a three-week course of doxycycline antibiotics to eliminate Lyme disease pathogens.collected by :Lucy William
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