Parasites Among Us
There is a continuing up-tic of Lyme disease in America. B. miyamotoi is a relatively newly discovered tick-borne parasite related to the Lyme-causing Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) bacteria. Both are spirochetes or corkscrew-shaped bacteria that travel directly into cell tissue. Lyme is a parasitic, tick-borne disease affecting an estimated 440,000 people each year, 12X more than the 35,000 annual cases the CDC reports here [...]









