Difficulties Experienced with Lyme Disease

CBC.CA has an excellent article explaining some of the difficulties one experiences with Lyme disease, often without even knowing it. Here's an excerpt:

"Can't figure out why you're coming down with conditions you'd expect to feel in the winter?

Could be you're in the early stages of Lyme disease — a condition first identified in the mid-1970s. The disease was named after the town where the first cases were diagnosed — Lyme, Conn. The illness is caused by the bite of two species of ticks — blacklegged ticks (sometimes called deer ticks) and western blacklegged ticks.

Since then, Lyme disease has become established from Nova Scotia to B.C., except for Alberta and Saskatchewan.Lyme disease was unknown in Canada up until the 1980s. Initially, it was identified only at Long Point and Point Pelee, Ont. — which is the farthest south you can get in Canada.

In January 2011, the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg discovered 24 people were wrongly told they didn't have Lyme disease when they in fact have the illness. The mistake was found during a quality control review at the lab.

If Lyme disease is not treated with antibiotics soon after infection, patients can suffer arthritis and neurologic problems."

Read more here.