Chronic Lyme Disease

Fact or Fiction?

Lyme disease is the most commonly reported tick-borne disease in the United States and Europe. Lyme disease was first recognized clinically in 1977 as "Lyme arthritis" during studies of a cluster of children in Connecticut who were thought to have juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. A total of 252,681 confirmed cases of Lyme disease were reported in the Uni…