Lyme Disease Primer
From our November Newsletter:
Growing up, my parents imparted a healthy fear of ticks to me and my two brothers. I remember the constant reminders to “check myself” after coming in from a day playing outside. I remember the ashtray and matches my father used to burn ticks and the kerosene jar where we would drown them. And I remember the first time I saw an embedded, engorged tick on my brother Rick. It remains a vivid memory to this day.
Despite these memories and 25 years of growing up and living in the Northeast, it was not until I started private veterinary practice in Connecticut, that I began to realize the devastating effect of tick born disease on humans and horses alike…