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BY LAURIE MCCLELLAN Health Affairs To Download article, click here When experts say your debilitating disease doesn’t even exist, you’ve got trouble I don’t believe in the Loch Ness monster. I don’t think government scientists are autopsying aliens in Area 51 or plottinga vast conspiracy fromabunker at the North Pole. But for the past two [...]
Lyme disease (LD) is a complex, multisystemic illness. As the most common vector-borne disease in the United States, LD is caused by bacterial spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, with potential coinfections from agents of anaplasmosis, babesiosis, and ehrlichiosis. Persistent symptoms and clinical signs reflect multiorgan involvement with episodes of active disease and periods of remission, [...]
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