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Winnipegger warns of Lyme disease

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BY , WINNIPEG SUN

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Jan Cmela can relate to Avril Lavigne’s health issues and she’s hoping the Canadian pop singer’s voice will raise awareness in the battle against Lyme disease.

Lavigne revealed in a recent People Magazine interview she thought she was dying after a suspected tick bite in the spring of 2014.

“I had no idea a bug bite could do this,” Lavigne, 30, told the magazine. “I felt like I couldn’t breathe, I couldn’t talk and I couldn’t move … It felt like having all your life sucked out of you.”

The illness left Lavigne bedridden for five months. She continues to recuperate from the bacterial infection at home in Ontario.

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