Lyme disease costs up to $1.3 billion per year to treat, study finds

(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) Lyme disease, transmitted by a bite from a tick infected by the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria, had long been considered easy to treat, usually requiring a single doctor's visit and a few weeks of antibiotics for most people. But new research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests that a prolonged illness associated with the disease in some patients is more widespread and serious than previously understood.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news