Does Chronic Lyme Disease Exist?
April 22, 2016
One of the most common medical malpractice inquiries we receive are from people throughout the United States who are suffering chronic and often debilitating symptoms that they firmly believe are due to the unnecessary and negligent delay in diagnosing their Lyme disease and/or the undue delay or fa[...]
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Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (Chronic Lyme Disease)
September 3, 2014
We often receive calls and inquiries from people throughout the United States who have chronic Lyme disease (properly called post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome) who claim that their healthcare providers failed to timely and properly diagnose their Lyme disease and/or misdiagnosed their Lyme di[...]
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May Is Lyme Disease Awareness Month
May 6, 2014
May 2014 is Lyme Disease Awareness Month in the United States, focusing attention on Lyme disease prevention and treatment. The CDC’s most current statistics regarding the number of reported cases of Lyme disease in the United States, from 2003 through 2012, indicate that the number of confi[...]
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White-Footed Mouse May Spread Lyme Disease
November 7, 2013
It is well known that the “deer tick” (blacklegged tick) can be a carrier of the bacterium that causes Lyme disease and that deer are known hosts of adult deer ticks. However, the question has been posed as to why there has been a rise in the prevalence of Lyme disease in areas wh[...]
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New Lyme Disease Statistics (2013)
September 4, 2013
The CDC reported on August 19, 2013 that preliminary estimates indicate that the number of Americans diagnosed with Lyme disease each year is around 300,000, based on findings from three ongoing CDC studies that use different methods. The first study analyzes medical claims information for ap[...]
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A New Lyme Disease Vaccine?
July 27, 2013
Efforts are being made toward a new and effective Lyme disease vaccine. Baxter Healthcare Corporation has recently reported the results of its Phase 1/2 Lyme Vaccine Study that began on March 1, 2011 and ended on May 8, 2012. Study participants received three primary immunizations and one booster [...]
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Tick-Borne Encephalitis Leads To $41,750,000 Verdict
July 6, 2013
On March 27, 2013, after eight days of trial, a Connecticut federal jury returned a verdict in the amount of $41,750,000 in favor of a now 20-year-old New York woman who contracted a very serious disease as a result of a tick bite that she experienced during her high school trip to China that h[...]
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Lyme Literate Lawyers
April 28, 2013
We have been receiving an increased number of Lyme disease medical malpractice inquiries from people who have suffered serious or permanent physical and psychological injuries as a result of alleged misdiagnosis of their Lyme disease, late diagnosis of their Lyme disease, and/or the failure to timel[...]
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Chronic Lyme Disease (Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome)
April 26, 2013
Lyme disease is an infection caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorfere (B. burgdorferi) that is transmitted by the bite of infected ticks (deer ticks). Now that the weather is beginning to warm up in many parts of the United States and people and their pets will be spending more time outside, [...]
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Lyme Disease Misdiagnosis Claims
January 3, 2013
Many people are under the impression that Lyme disease is a relatively new phenomenon in the United States and that Lyme disease misdiagnosis cases are also of recent vintage. However, Lyme disease misdiagnosis claims have been around for over a decade and appear to us to be increasing in frequency,[...]
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