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LYME DISEASE

Lyme disease, a disease carried by ticks, is growing at an alarming rate. Each year over 65,000 cases of Lyme disease are reported to the CDC but recent estimates using other methods suggest that there could be as many as 476,000 cases of people getting Lyme disease in the United States.

Common symptoms are fatigue, headaches, fever or chills, muscle or joint pain, mental confusion, swollen lymph n…