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What’s an LLMD?

Pam Dodd — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:26:35 +0000

LLMD stands for Lyme-Literate Medical Doctor. Any kind of licensed medical doctor can be called an LLMD. They don’t all belong to the same medical specialty. Earning the unofficial LLMD designation comes with practicing medicine according to the diagnostic and treatment guidelines of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (or ILADS). There are also [...]

Lyme Disease-Borreliosis Around the World

Pamela Dodd — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:45:52 +0000

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 [...]

What is Lyme?

Pamela Dodd — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:22:03 +0000

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’s-eye rash. Many don’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 [...]