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Follow @WJMN_Local3Like Local 3 News on Facebook:The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 300,000 people are diagnosed with Lyme disease in the U.S. every year. I'm concerned about what essentially is an epidemic of Lyme Disease that has occurred over the past two decades"There are 17,029 cases reported, in 2015 - almost 30,000 cases reported. 95% of Lyme disease cases reported in 2015 came from 14 states. If left untreated, a Lyme disease infection can spread to joints, the heart, and the nervous system. Lindsey Mears was bitten by a tick and eventually diagnosed with Lyme disease.

University of New Haven professor studying whether stevia can kill Lyme disease bacteria

Lyme disease is a tick-borne, hard-to-diagnose illness named for the town of Lyme, where it was first identified in 1975. That means, using the CDC estimate, that about 30,000 people in Connecticut are diagnosed with Lyme disease each year. But research by a University of New Haven biology professor and her students in the university's Lyme Disease Research Group, which still must be borne out by clinical trials, looks promising. WEST HAVEN >> Could a common sweetener that's already in the kitchen cupboards in many American homes — stevia — prove to be an effective treatment for a disease as nasty and persistent as Lyme disease? Sapi and her students compared liquid stevia extract to antibiotics doxycycline, cefoperazone, daptomycin and various combinations of them.


MILES O'BRIEN: The Lyme disease vaccine which he helped develop is a sore subject. Lyme disease is the only infection that I know of for which there is an effective vaccine, but it's not available to the public. MILES O'BRIEN: Could the Lyme disease bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi, be cleverly hiding inside the human body? MILES O'BRIEN: Kyran Romanowski was diagnosed with Lyme disease in June of 2016. Given its debilitating effects on some people, and after years of research, it begs the question: Why is there still no vaccine people can get to prevent Lyme disease?


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