Why So Much Interest in Lyme Disease?
The most feared tick-borne illness is Lyme disease, which is spread by ticks so small that they often go unnoticed and is named for the Connecticut town where Yale researchers first traced the disease back to insects. Marc Siegel, an internist and FOX News contributor, said other tick diseases don’t receive as much attention, and for good reason. “They’re not as common as Lyme disease,” Siegel said. “It’s also because we tend to target certain health concerns in the media, and Lyme disease has gotten a lot of attention because we have a deer problem. And when people see deer, they think of Lyme disease.” Click here to read Siegel’s blog on his treatment of FOX Business News anchor Cody Willard’s Lyme disease. Unlike other tick diseases, Lyme disease is seen in most areas of the U.S. But it’s most common in the Northeast. New England and Mid-Atlantic states average more than 17,000 cases of Lyme disease annually, according to the interactive map found on the Tick Encounter Resource Web
