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To get rid of persisting Lyme disease symptoms, patients sometimes pay as much as $100,000 for controversial treatments not covered by insurance.

Study finds Lyme-carrying ticks next to beaches and 'pretty much wherever we looked' Paulina Firozi, The Washington Post April 25, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail A man walks along the coast as the fog rolls in at Drakes Beach in Inverness, California on December 13, 2019. (Photo by Philip Pacheco / AFP) PHILIP PACHECO/AFP via Getty Images Disease-carrying ticks, commonly associated with wooded areas, are also abundant near beaches in Northern California, according to a study. They were not found on beaches themselves, but in the brush and vegetation beachgoers may walk through to get to the sand...

The pathogen that causes Lyme disease is just as common among ticks residing near the shore as it is among ticks from woodlands, known high-risk habitats, researchers reported Friday (April 23) in Applied and Environmental Microbiology. They examined the prevalence of the Lyme disease–causing bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi in two California counties and found the same proportion of western black-legged ticks ( Ixodes pacificus) were infected with the pathogen in forests as they were in chaparral adjacent to beaches. “The high rate of disease-carrying ticks in the coastal chaparral was ...

Servicemembers are particularly at risk for Lyme disease; they live, work, and play on bases where Lyme is rampant. Some 75 percent of all U.S. military installations are located in states where 99 percent of the approximately 500,000 tickborne disease,