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[1] [4] Malawista initially named the new disease "Lyme arthritis." [4] The name was later changed to Lyme disease after the illness was later shown to encompass a wide range of symptoms which were not limited to joint pain. [4] Malawista and his colleagues initially hypothesized that Lyme disease was caused by a virus. [4]
Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is a tick-borne disease caused by species of Borrelia bacteria, transmitted by blood-feeding ticks in the genus Ixodes. [4] [9] [10] The most common sign of infection is an expanding red rash, known as erythema migrans (EM), which appears at the site of the tick bite about a week afterwards. [1]
Olympian Stephen Nedoroscik — also known as “The Pommel Horse guy” — helped the U.S. men’s gymnastics team win a bronze medal in the team final on July 29 — its first in 16 years.
About 30,000 cases of Lyme disease in the U.S. are reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by state and local health departments each year. However, the CDC says that many more ...
[5] [6] By 1977, Lyme arthritis, now known as Lyme disease, was identified as a new, distinct illness by Steere and his mentor Stephen Malawista. Scientists eventually discovered that deer ticks were responsible for the spread of the disease. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s Murray worked to raise awareness about Lyme disease. [1]
Lyme disease is caused by infected black-legged (or deer) ticks and symptoms of the disease may vary, depending on how long it takes to discover the signs. Show comments Advertisement
Allen Caruthers Steere is an American rheumatologist. He is a professor of rheumatology at Harvard University and previously at Tufts University and Yale University.Steere and his mentor, Stephen Malawista of Yale University, are credited with discovering and naming Lyme disease, and he has published almost 300 scholarly articles on Lyme disease during his more than 40 years of studies of this ...
Bella Hadid has shared a candid post reflecting on her health journey as she has lived with Lyme disease since 2012.. The 26-year-old supermodel shared a health update with her 59.3 million ...