RISE OF LYME DISEASE TIED TO INFESTED DEER

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: January 19, 1989| Author: | Copyright information

The most intense concentration of Lyme disease ever documented has been found in a neighborhood near a Massachusetts nature preserve that was overrun with tick-infested deer, specialists report.

Researchers say their work shows how rapidly the disease can spread once it arrives in a community that has lots of deer.

Lyme disease is characterized at first by a skin rash, headache or fever and later by arthritis and heart damage.

"The message is that it can be terribly explosive," said Dr. Andrew Spielman of the Harvard School of Public Health, a co-author of the report.

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