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Mysterious Lyme disease: pathogens, symptoms and difficulties in diagnosis
Recently, Lyme disease or tick-borne borreliosis has been leading the search engines. And all because of the recent statement of Justin Bieber, who has been fighting this infectious disease for two years. We discussed with the expert what forms this disease can take and remembered which of the Hollywood stars became its victim.
The name of the disease was a town in old Lyme in the United States, where borreliosis was first diagnosed in 1975. Then the doctor asked the two women, whose children were “juvenile rheumatoid arthritis”. The same diagnosis was made for several adults.Studies have found that the disease occurs after the suction of an ixodic tick, with arthritis often combined with migrating ring-shaped erythema. That is, in appearance (at least in the eyes of ordinary people), a “harmless” tick bite can turn into serious health problems. If the tick is infected, of course.
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