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By Alexa Tsoulis-Reay
“Dr. Neil Spector, a 58-year-old associate professor of medicine at Duke University, spoke with Science of Us about his long-undiagnosed Lyme disease, which resulted in a series of medical scares that culminated in complete heart failure.”
[CanLyme Note: We disagree that “appropriate treatment” has been established for borreliosis. Also, this study involved deceased monkeys and is a primary tissue study so it is not representative of what occurs in a living human. There are interesting point made including that dead borrelia remnants can cause havoc.] Abstract Even after appropriate treatment, a proportion…
TORONTO — Avril Lavigne has revealed she was bedridden for five months suffering from Lyme disease. “I felt like I couldn’t breathe, I couldn’t talk and I couldn’t move,” the Canadian singer told People. “I thought I was dying.” Lavigne said she felt lethargic and lightheaded for months but didn’t know why. She finally got…
“Her symptoms started quickly: neck pain, extreme fatigue and intermittent fever and chills. The woman had been healthy until then, and since she enjoyed gardening and landscaping at her rural Maryland home, she wondered if a tick bite might have given her Lyme disease although she had not noticed the telltale bull’s-eye skin lesion. Her…
Lyme disease expert champions investigation into Pentagon weaponizing ticks: ‘It’s a courageous move’ July 21st, 2019 Kris Newby, author of “Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons,” discussed how ticks can be weaponized during an interview with “Fox & Friends Sunday” and supported an investigation into whether or not the Pentagon attempted…
Apr 29, 2019 – by Alexandra Heck Orangeville Banner “For three and a half years, Costigan suffered from about 33 different symptoms, including flu, neurological, spasms, headaches and more. After a slew of testing and referrals to different doctors, there was a clue. What if it was Lyme disease, one specialist suggested, noting that he…
Abstract The tick, Ixodes scapularis, vectors pathogens such as Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. Over the last few decades I. scapularis has expanded its range, introducing a novel health threat into these areas. Warming temperatures appear to be one cause of its range expansion to the north. However, other factors are also involved. We show that…
