Lyme disease

Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is a tick-borne disease caused by species of Borrelia bacteria, transmitted by blood-feeding ticks in the genus Ixodes. The most common sign... Wikipedia

• Specialty:  Infectious disease
• Symptoms:  Expanding area of redness at the site of a tick bite, fever, headache, tiredness
• Usual onset:  A week after a bite
• Causes:  Borrelia spread by ticks
• Diagnostic method:  Based on symptoms, tick exposure, blood tests
• Prevention:  Prevention of tick bites (clothing the limbs, DEET), doxycycline
• Medication:  Doxycycline, amoxicillin, ceftriaxone, cefuroxime
• Frequency:  ~476k/year in U.S. (a likely overestimate), 200k/year in Europe
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo