How are people with Lyme disease cured?
Lyme disease is easy to cure if it is diagnosed early and treated with oral antibiotics. But when Lyme disease is in a more advanced stage, the patient needs intravenous feeding of the antibiotics. Amy Tan, for instance, needs intravenous feeding, but she has such a hectic travel schedule that it is hard to administer this consistently. She’s going to the Galapagos Islands soon, and there aren’t health facilities there that can provide her with the intravenous feeding she needs. A lot of people believe erroneously that Lyme disease is not a problem on the West Coast. That’s correct. There’s a misperception that Lyme disease doesn’t exist in California. This belief is absolutely wrong. A recent tick study conducted by Robert Lane of the UC Berkeley Microbiology Department revealed that parts of Mendocino have a tick-infection rate of 41 percent, which is equivalent to the East Coast infection rate. Another survey showed up to a 30 percent infection rate in Santa Cruz-area state parks. I
