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Lyme disease

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. The most common sign... Wikipedia

  • Specialty:  Infectious disease
  • Symptoms:  Expanding area of redness at the site of a tick bite, fever, headache, tiredness
  • Usual onset:  A week after a bite
  • Causes:  Borrelia spread by ticks
  • Diagnostic method:  Based on symptoms, tick exposure, blood tests
  • Prevention:  Prevention of tick bites (clothing the limbs, DEET), doxycycline
  • Medication:  Doxycycline, amoxicillin, ceftriaxone, cefuroxime
  • Frequency:  ~476k/year in U.S. (a likely overestimate), 200k/year in Europe
  • Data source:  DuckDuckGo