By using this site, you agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Accept
Health Works CollectiveHealth Works CollectiveHealth Works Collective
  • Health
    • Mental Health
    Health
    Healthcare organizations are operating on slimmer profit margins than ever. One report in August showed that they are even lower than the beginning of the…
    Show More
    Top News
    HIPPA compliance
    How Medical Office Staff Can Make Your Practice HIPAA Compliant
    October 29, 2021
    Everything you need to know about hyaluronic acid treatment
    Everything you need to know about hyaluronic acid treatment
    February 10, 2022
    Which Mushroom Capsules Are Good for Your Health?
    May 5, 2022
    Latest News
    6 Easy Healthcare Ways to Sit Less and Move More Every Day
    September 10, 2025
    7 Most Common Healthcare Accreditation Programs: Which Should You Use?
    August 20, 2025
    Hospital Pest Control and the Fight Against Superbugs
    August 20, 2025
    Hygiene Beyond The Clinic: Attention To Overlooked Non-Clinical Spaces
    August 13, 2025
  • Policy and Law
    • Global Healthcare
    • Medical Ethics
    Policy and Law
    Get the latest updates about Insurance policies and Laws in the Healthcare industry for different geographical locations.
    Show More
    Top News
    Clinical Trials
    Can You Participate in a Clinical Trial?
    April 28, 2022
    5 Things to Take Care of When You Go Into Hospital
    July 24, 2020
    Pharmacists help you
    How A Pharmacist Can Help You
    November 28, 2022
    Latest News
    Healthcare at a Crossroads: Why Leadership Matters More Than Ever
    September 9, 2025
    How Social Security Disability Shapes Access to Care and Everyday Health
    August 22, 2025
    How a DUI Lawyer Can Help When Your Future Health Feels Uncertain
    August 22, 2025
    How One Fall Can Lead to a Long Road of Medical Complications
    August 22, 2025
  • Medical Innovations
  • News
  • Wellness
  • Tech
Search
© 2023 HealthWorks Collective. All Rights Reserved.
Reading: Lyme Disease Even Scarier? Maybe
Share
Notification Show More
Font ResizerAa
Health Works CollectiveHealth Works Collective
Font ResizerAa
Search
Follow US
  • About
  • Contact
  • Privacy
© 2023 HealthWorks Collective. All Rights Reserved.
Health Works Collective > Specialties > Lyme Disease Even Scarier? Maybe
SpecialtiesWellnessWilderness Medicine

Lyme Disease Even Scarier? Maybe

CWSonline
CWSonline
Share
3 Min Read
SHARE
lyme disease

Black-legged (Deer) Tick
(Photo: National Pest Management Association)

lyme disease

Black-legged (Deer) Tick
(Photo: National Pest Management Association)

The height of tick season generally brings a spate of scary stories about Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses, and this year’s seem especially high on the heebie-jeebies scale.

Lyme disease itself has long been confounding, but the Boston Globe today zeroes in on an especially vexing fact: About 25% of patients continue experiencing symptoms — debilitating headaches, sore joints, nausea, etc. — long after they finish the standard month-long treatment of oral antibiotics.

Medically speaking, they should be fine, but they’re nowhere near it. Did the bacteria dodge the antibiotics and infiltrate the body’s nervous system? Maybe the Lyme triggered a different illness? Should patients stay on antibiotics long-term?

Most specialists thinks the latter is a bad idea for a host of reasons, but it’s the only relief for some patients, including the woman featured in the Globe story.

If Lyme sounds awful, it’s nothing compared to the emerging threat of the Powassan virus. It is rarer — about 6% of ticks in New York’s Hudson Valley were found to carry it in a recent study, compared to about 50% for Lyme — but far more lethal, reports the Poughkeepsie Journal. About a third of those afflicted die.

Last week, Sen. Chuck Schumer called on the CDC to launch a study of Powassan and to expand research into all tick-borne diseases.

At LiveScience.com, Robin Diamond writes that such research can’t come soon enough. Doctors for too long have resorted to a “knee-jerk diagnosis” of Lyme, often to their patients’ detriment, but the new studies show that we need a much broader view of “all the illnesses tiny ticks can carry, the big problems they can create, and what doctors and patients can do to stem the tide.”

What are your thoughts?
Follow @TickSafety on Twitter and comment! Be sure to add #TickSafety!

LEARN MORE ABOUT LYME DISEASE & TICK SAFETY AT WWW.WILDSAFE.ORG/TICKS

TAGGED:CDCdeer tickdiseaseLymeLyme diseasePowassantick
Share This Article
Facebook Copy Link Print
Share

Stay Connected

1.5kFollowersLike
4.5kFollowersFollow
2.8kFollowersPin
136kSubscribersSubscribe

Latest News

a woman walking on the hallway
6 Easy Healthcare Ways to Sit Less and Move More Every Day
Health
September 9, 2025
Clinical Expertise
Healthcare at a Crossroads: Why Leadership Matters More Than Ever
Global Healthcare
September 9, 2025
travel nurse in north carolina
Balancing Speed and Scope: Choosing the Nursing Degree That Fits Your Goals
Nursing
September 1, 2025
intimacy
How to Keep Intimacy Comfortable as You Age
Relationship and Lifestyle Senior Care
September 1, 2025

You Might also Like

The New York Times, Aspirin and Melanoma

March 17, 2013
CCBHCs
BusinessFinanceGlobal HealthcareHealth ReformHospital AdministrationPublic HealthWellness

2016 Excellence in Behavioral Health Program Design

February 23, 2016
ACLS
Specialties

Does Your Doctor Know Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)?

August 20, 2013
orthopedic procedures
Health

6 Common Orthopedic Procedures

January 25, 2024
Subscribe
Subscribe to our newsletter to get our newest articles instantly!
Follow US
© 2008-2025 HealthWorks Collective. All Rights Reserved.
  • About
  • Contact
  • Privacy
Welcome Back!

Sign in to your account

Username or Email Address
Password

Lost your password?