Welcome to summer and the possibility of contracting Lyme disease from ticks. Test you knowledge on the signs and symptoms of this particular disease.
Lyme disease is a bacterial infection contracted from the deer tick or black-legged It is found in the Northeast, Minnesota and Wisconsin and northern California but recent surveys find it in half of US counties. Following a bite from an infected tick, a bull’s eye rash can be seen. Other symptoms include a headache, myalgia, arthralgia, fever, malaise, sensory neurological symptoms and neck stiffness. Cardiac symptoms can include atrioventricular block, left ventricular dysfunction and cardiomegaly.
Slide show from emedicine.com on Lyme Disease.
Meyerhoff, J. O et al. Lyme Disease. emedicine.medscape.com. Jan 21, 2015. web. Jan 15, 2016.
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/330178-overview
Primer of Rheumatic Disease, edition 11.
