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December 17, 2023

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Hearing loss – a complication of Lyme disease

In their article “Isolated Sudden Bilateral Neurosensory Hearing Loss as a Presentation of Lyme Neuroborreliosis: A Case Study,” Rochd et al. discuss the case of a 23-year-old woman who “presented with a 2-month history of temporal headache, tinnitus, and instability, which was followed by sudden bilateral hearing loss without any other associated symptoms.”¹ The woman […]

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Lyme disease causes heart block within one month of infection

A 26-year-old man was admitted to the hospital with flu-like symptoms, syncope and exhibited third-degree atrioventricular heart block. He had experienced 3 episodes of syncope overnight and reported having a mild cough and congestion for several weeks prior to his admission. The man had a tick bite one month earlier while visiting his family in

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A dog with ticks sitting in the woods in the winter season.

Can pets harbor ticks, even in the winter?

In their article, “An analysis of companion animal tick encounters as revealed by photograph-based crowdsourced data,” Kopsco and colleagues found, “The percentage of reports of ticks found on companion animals is more than doubled in the fall and winter seasons from what was reported in the spring and summer seasons.”¹ Between January 1, 2014 and December

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