Lyme Disease Has Arrived in Asheville: What Every Family Needs to Know About Tick Bites (plus my take on Chronic Lyme)
According to recent research, ticks carrying Borrelia burgdorferi, the pathogen commonly associated with Lyme disease, have been found in Asheville, NC, a disease that has been slowly spreading from the Northeast over the past six decades. The study, performed on ticks harvested in nearby Biltmore Forest, found that about one-third of the tick samples carried…