https://www.optometrytimes.com/article/lyme-disease-45-year-silent-epidemic?

Lyme disease: The 45-year silent epidemic

Michael S. Cooper, OD
October 15, 2019
Volume: 11

For many ODs, Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdoferi) and it’s 22+ variant cousins hit close to home. My father has been bitten by infected ticks with these spirochetes from the genus Ixodes (primarily Ixodes scapularis) over seven times.

This narrative can be repeated with slightly different wrinkles by almost anyone who has been exposed to or knows of a family member or friend in kind. Incidence has more than doubled in the past 13 years with reported cases numbering 30,000 to 43,000 per year.1,2

Admittedly, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has

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CrystalRiver