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		<title>Lyme Disease: What&#8217;s Luck Got to Do With It?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 20:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Dodd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having Lyme disease is often a life-altering experience, like no other health problem you&#8217;ve ever had or could imagine ever having. If it&#8217;s not caught and treated early, Lyme produces a wide-range of debilitating symptoms. No two Lyme sufferers have exactly the same complaints. Lyme is tricky to diagnose. It&#8217;s harder to treat, especially because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lyme Disease-Borreliosis Around the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Dodd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[What is Lyme?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lyme disease gets its name from Lyme, Connecticut, where a group of teens suffered from a mysterious arthritic condition in the mid 1970s. By the late 1970s, U.S. scientists had determined that infected blacklegged (Ixodes) ticks transmitted the disease. In 1981, Swiss-American researcher Willy Burgdorfer identified the spirochete bacterium, which was named Borrelia burgdorferi after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Lyme Disease Affects the Immune System</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Dodd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lyme disease is like no other bacterial infection. With most bacterial infections, you expect to take an antibiotic and be over the infection within a week to 10 days. Despite treatment, however, many people with Lyme disease often end up with more serious, widespread infection. Borrelia burgdorferi: An odd bacterium The Borrelia burgdorferi spirochete causes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personal Chronic Lyme Disease Support</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Dodd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having chronic Lyme Disease is no picnic. 

It’s often a lonely road with nowhere safe to turn for Lyme Disease help beyond your doctor’s office.  Mainly you feel lousy, sometimes for months or even years. This can have a major impact on your relationships, your job, and your pocketbook.  If all this isn't enough, you’ve got added stressors that don’t come along with other, better-known chronic illnesses.  Stressors like: Some people, including many doctors, don’t think Lyme is a real disease. They consider you mentally unstable if [...]

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		<title>What is Lyme?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Dodd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[What is Lyme?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lyme Disease is a bacterial infection commonly thought to be transmitted by the bite of an infected tick. When first infected, some people get a red bull&#8217;s-eye rash. Many don&#8217;t. You can feel like you have the flu with fever, headache, muscle pains, and maybe a stiff neck or swollen joints. If the disease is [...]]]></description>
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