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http://www.dailyunion.com/
Jefferson native's Lyme book wins award
The Daily Jefferson County Union
September 25, 2007
By Pam Chickering Wilson
NEW YORK – Jefferson native Trish Yerges and her co-author Dr. Rita Stanley recently won a bronze medal in the 11th annual Independent Publisher Book Awards for their book, "Confronting Lyme Disease: What Patient Stories Teach Us.”
The Independent Publisher Book (IPPY) Awards, an annual recognition event open to all members of the independent publishing industry, selects its winners from among thousands of exemplary independent, university and self-published titles produced each year.
The awards announcement came in June, after judges made their semi-finalist selection from 2,690 entries in 65 national categories. Entrants came from 50 states, eight Canadian provinces and 17 countries overseas.
“We entered the competition last fall,” Yerges said. “I sort of forgot about it until we received a notice in June that we were among the semi-finalists, and one week after that we learned that our book was a medalist.”
"Confronting Lyme Disease" won the bronze for health, medicine and nutrition, one of 65 different categories included in the contest. The gold award in that category went to "The Official Autism 101 Manual" by Karen L. Simmons (Autism Today), and the silver award went to "Diabetes: Sugar-Coated Crisis" by David Spero, R.N. (New Society Publishers).
The awards ceremony took place in Manhattan, close to New Jersey where Yerges' associate Dr. Lesley Ann Fein happened to be located. So Fein, M.D., MPH, a Lyme disease expert and the medical director of the Lyme Disease Society, was able to attend the ceremony and pick up the award, Yerges said.
“A marketing and media package came with the prize, Yerges said, which brought the Jefferson native's Lyme disease book some additional exposure through newspapers, magazines and television channels all over the East, as well as in the state of Oregon, where she and Dr. Stanley both live.
Stanley invited Yerges to assist her in writing the award-winning book after Yerges' daughter, Lauren, who had contracted Lyme disease in Wisconsin, was successfully treated in Oregon. Stanley led a Lyme disease support group at Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland when Yerges sought her guidance in Lauren's case. Stanley has done original research in the fields of physiology and biochemistry and has published in leading scientific journals such as “The Journal of Biological Chemistry; Journal of Neurochemistry and Biology of Reproduction.”
"Confronting Lyme Disease" came out in March 2006 through Amazon, Booksurge and The Mitre's Touch Gallery. It relates the personal stories of 14 Lyme disease patients from Canada and the United States, detailing how they overcame the unexpected obstacles to diagnosis, testing and treatment.
The book has been hailed by some of the top experts in the field for providing information of use to medical professionals as well as lay-people.
Yerges said the book, released in March 2006, continues to sell well on Amazon, with at least two selling each day.
Local impact
Lyme disease, often variable and misdiagnosed, is becoming more prevalent and has seen an increase in incidence in Southeastern Wisconsin in recent years, where it had not been seen previously.
“A lot of people don't think that it's reached here,” Yerges said. “In 1998, 46 of the 72 Wisconsin counties had reported cases of Lyme, and that didn't include a lot of Southeastern Wisconsin.”
In 1998, Wisconsin ranked as the seventh highest Lyme disease endemic state in the nation by the Center for Disease Control. In 2006, the state ranked fifth.
In 2006, New York reported the most cases with 4,217, followed by Pennsylvania with 3,399, New Jersey with 1,918; Connecticut with 1,694, and Wisconsin with 1,368. After that, the numbers dropped off with Maryland at 967, Minnesota with 729, and Delaware with 466.
The disease, which often starts with a target-shaped rash, is spread by a bite from a tick infected with Lyme, can progress to a variety of seemingly unrelated problems including musculoskeletal, neurologic and cardiovascular symptoms
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Yerges said that many clinically diagnosed cases of Lyme disease are not included in the CDC report because only about half of all patients present with the characteristic rash.
In addition, she said, other nonspecific symptoms such as headache, fever, and sore joints are not always recognized by clinicians as Lyme disease symptoms.
The disease is no longer confined just to the forested counties of Wisconsin, although these counties still report the greatest number of cases, she said.
“Infected ticks hitchhike with migrating birds, deer, rodents and even pets and start breeding in new areas.”
For more information on the book and on current CDC statistics, people can visit the website www.confrontinglyme.com.
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Yerges said that she is already at work on her next publishing project, which will be a book on century farms located in Union County, Ore., where she lives.
“There's about 30 and I already have the stories for about 20,” she said. “I'm looking at doing it in a couple of volumes.”
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