Lyme Year News Today

A FORMER teacher who was diagnosed with Lyme disease is now raising awareness for the illness by creating songs of hope. Demetrios Loukas, 50, was completing his teacher training at Oxford Brookes in 2005 when he was bitten by a tick on a farm. The trainee teacher had been taking his class from a Banbury primary school on a school trip to a West Oxfordshire farm. Mr Loukas became extremely ill shortly after the incident, however, it took eight years for him to be formally diagnosed with...

Square Halo sings out about Lyme disease, Christmas, and pansexuality 3 Shares It’s not often that you hear of a musical group that grows out of a science-based lobbying organization. Actually, let’s face it, you never hear of that – or at least, not until now. Anglo-American trio Square Halo – which consists of Demetrios Loukas, Treyvonce Ambers-Moore and Omar Shelesh – might well be staking its claim as the first band to have sprung from such unlikely beginnings; not only that, but ...