It has been three decades since the agent of Lyme disease, the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, and the ticks that vector it were identified.
It has been three decades since the agent of Lyme disease, the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, and the ticks that vector it were identified.
by Jonathan Galland
With the movie Contagion spreading in the theaters, you might think the next epidemic will come from a scary outbreak of an exotic disease from far away.
But there is a silent epidemic that lurks in our backyards, parks and playgrounds: Lyme disease.
And it all starts with a tiny tick bite that you might not even see.