Presents an overview of Lyme disease and how to deal with it, covering its history, scope, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, research, and prevention; also includes a glossary, a bibliography, and list of related organizations.
Provides information about Lyme disease, discussing what it is, how people get it, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, the aftermath of infection, and prevention.
This book discusses Lyme disease, an infection transmitted by the bite of ticks carrying the spiral-shaped bacterium "Borrelia burgdorferi"; controversies over therapies for Lyme disease; and personal narratives of people who are experiencing Lyme disease.
The author describes the strange symptoms she, her husband, and two sons experienced after moving to pastoral Chappaqua, New York, discusses the struggles they went through in an attempt to diagnose their escalating illnesses, and provides an account of the controversy that rages within the scientific and medical community over the treatment of Lyme disease.