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(Published by the Stanford News Service, Feb 18 2014) “A Stanford study has found that ticks infected with the bacterium that causes Lyme disease and a newly identified human pathogen are widespread in the San Francisco Bay Area.” “(the study) to be published in the March issue […]

While ticks do transmit Lyme disease, it may be a disservice to keep telling the public through the media that Lyme is a “tick-borne” disease (only). This disease can be transmitted through sexual activity, by nearly all biting insects, blood transfusions, mother to fetus, through animal bites […]

Now that the CDC recently admitted that the estimated number of new cases of Lyme disease infection each year is 300,000 instead of 30,000… consider for a moment that the real number is most probably even higher because many people don’t realize they have been infected. Oftentimes […]

As if it weren’t difficult enough for us Lyme patients to keep up with all the nutritional requirements, limitations and supplements, Consumer Reports studies recently confirmed the existence of detectable levels of arsenic in many rice products. It has already been established that apple seeds, for example, […]

As Dr. Mercola states, “According to preliminary statistics just released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 300,000 new cases of Lyme disease are diagnosed in the US each year. This is about 10 times higher than the officially reported number of cases, indicating […]

Do you have symptoms that come and go? Are you on a medication merry go round? Have you been to 10 or 20 doctors without relief? Maybe you’ve been misdiagnosed. Read the full article here published on the Huffington Post.

Previously, the only official figure from the CDC regarding Lyme disease was the number of new cases reported to the agency, about 30,000 a year. This number was always believed to be unrealistically low by comparison to the actual number of new Americans who might be infected […]