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 […]
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Lyme disease causes heart block within one month of infection Lyme carditis syncope episodes indicate severe heart block requiring immediate medical attention. A 26-year-old man who fainted three times overnight was found to have third-degree heart block from a tick bite one month earlier. His case demonstrates how quickly Lyme disease can disseminate from initial
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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
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