Lyme carried by birds....

[alfreda89]

Lyme doctors have known this for decades. Other doctors have hysterically denied it.

People, dress to protect yourself from ticks! I DON'T CARE if DEET smells bad! USE IT!

http://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Lyme-disease-takes-wing-on-its-spread-inland-301668.php

Comments

[6-penny.livejournal.com]

Yep. Thank you for your Lyme posts. I have become a Lyme bore, trying to convince as many people as I can to be careful. - I'm going through a second bout, having picked up a tick in November.
At least my current medical people take it seriously and medicated even though the blood test came back negative. And warned me that I would possibly feel worse when the meds started to work. (He didn't say HOW MUCH WORSE though). I just kept mumbling, 'this is good it means the pills a re working...'

Yup --

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

One of the hardest things about Lyme treatment, whether you catch it quickly or years later, is how lousy you feel on the meds.

But trust me -- you don't want Persistent Lyme. As a kind reader, you know that. So -- "This is good... "

[lingster1.livejournal.com]

My greyhound had a really nasty fight with Lyme a couple of years ago and almost died twice before they got it under control. Now they know it is never defeated, just stays dormant in the bloodstream and has to be held in suppression by Doxycycline every day for the rest of his life.