Lyme disease is the most frequently encountered tick borne disease, prevalent in the continents of North America and Europe. It also ranks amongst the most rapidly increasing infectious diseases in the United States of America.
The disease is named after its epidemiological epicentre, a town called Lyme in Connecticut in which a group of cases was detected in the year 1976. Even though medical characteristics of the disease have been explained as early as the start of the twentieth century, the disease in its modern shape gets its source from the cases identified in the town of Lyme.
The disease differs on a wide scale in its manifestation, which can consist of rashes, the flu, and the probability of musculoskeletal, psychiatric symptoms. Majority of Lyme cases are treated by antibiotics, mainly if the treatment has started at an early stage in the disease.
The disease is named after its epidemiological epicentre, a town called Lyme in Connecticut in which a group of cases was detected in the year 1976. Even though medical characteristics of the disease have been explained as early as the start of the twentieth century, the disease in its modern shape gets its source from the cases identified in the town of Lyme.
The disease differs on a wide scale in its manifestation, which can consist of rashes, the flu, and the probability of musculoskeletal, psychiatric symptoms. Majority of Lyme cases are treated by antibiotics, mainly if the treatment has started at an early stage in the disease.
