Lyme Disease Overview

Lyme disease is a tick-borne disease that can cause a variety of symptoms. Some of these symptoms include; fever, rash, flu-like aches, joint swelling, weakness and short-term paralysis. The disease is caused by a bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi. Deer Ticks that feed on the blood of mammals can spread this disease through their bite.

When Lyme disease diagnosis is made in the early stages the odds are very much in your favor for a full recovery, there are however, cases where patients have recurring symptoms even after the infection is treated and cleared. Lyme disease is treated with antibiotics

Lyme Disease only became apparent in 1975 when a group of concerned parents in Lyme, Connecticut made researchers aware that many of their children had been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. The fact that so many young children in the same area were affected by a disease that was normally found in the older demographic eventually led researchers, in 1982, to the discovery of a certain bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi, in all the cases concerning the children of Lyme.

Lyme disease is most prevalent in the northeastern United States, but has been reported in all 50 states as well as other countries such as, China, Europe, Japan, Australia and the Soviet Union.

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