Lyme disease

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Lyme disease




This article is about Lyme disease and how it is a growing epidemic. This disease is the most common tick-borne disease in the whole northern hemisphere. This disease is transmitted to humans through a bite from a disease carrying tick, usually the deer tick. Some of the early symptoms include fever, headache, fatigue, and the circular rash that is left from a tick bite. Symptoms after a long period of time include weak, sore, or tired joints, the heart, and the central nervous system. This disease can usually be cured by taking antibiotic, but this is easier the earlier the disease is treated. Although the nymph is what causes most infections, adults also bit and spread the disease.

Lyme disease, being the number one tick-borne disease is a growing epidemic. It was first discovered in 1975 in Lyme, Connecticut, where several cases of the disease were identified. It wasn’t realized that it was a tick-borne disease until 1978 though. The cause of the disease wasn’t figured out further until 1982. The symptoms of the disease sometimes persist after it has been treated with antibiotics, prompting suggestions that Lyme disease causes autoimmunity.

I believe this post was put up to help people learn about Lyme disease. This could include how you get it treat it, consequence and symptoms. It also helps you to prevent it. Being someone who has had Lyme disease, I can say that it is not fun. You constantly feel tired and sore. You have a high fever every other week. Your joints feel weak. There are headaches every other day. In my case though, it took quite a while to be fully treated. The one symptom that I continued to have though was the sore and tired joints, mostly being the knees. Now the one thing that anyone can due to help prevent from getting the disease is don’t go into heavily wooded areas. If you must though then your best bet is to not go in the bushes and to use some form a repellent on your entire body including head and whatever clothing you might have on.