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  2. Lyme disease - Wikipedia

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    Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is a tick-borne disease caused by species of Borrelia bacteria, transmitted by blood-feeding ticks in the genus Ixodes. [4][9][10] The most common sign of infection is an expanding red rash, known as erythema migrans (EM), which appears at the site of the tick bite about a week afterwards. [1]

  3. Tim Houston - Wikipedia

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    Houston was elected on a platform to fix Nova Scotia's healthcare system. [24] A day after being sworn in, Houston fired the CEO and board of the Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), the provincial healthcare provider. He stated that he "needed a clean slate at the helm of his leadership team" for the Tories' intended overhaul of the healthcare ...

  4. Weather and climate effects on Lyme disease exposure

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    The incidence of Lyme disease is tied to many factors including climate. Certain regions worldwide supply the proper conditions for ticks to flourish. Ticks like habitats with at least 85% humidity and can only practice host questing at temperatures greater than 7 °C (45 °F). [ 7] In order to find microclimates that are suitable ticks will ...

  5. Nova Scotia Health Authority - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.nshealth.ca. The Nova Scotia Health Authority is a provincial health authority serving Nova Scotia, Canada. It is the largest employer in the province, with more than 23,000 employees, 2,500 physicians and 7,000 volunteers working from 45 different facilities. [1] Its largest hospital is the Halifax Infirmary which is part of the ...

  6. Chronic Lyme disease - Wikipedia

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    Chronic Lyme disease (CLD) is the name used by some people with non-specific symptoms, such as fatigue, muscle pain, and cognitive dysfunction to refer to their condition, even if there is no evidence that they had Lyme disease. [2][3] Both the label and the belief that these people's symptoms are caused by this particular infection are ...

  7. International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society

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    Major US medical authorities, including the Infectious Diseases Society of America, [5] the American Academy of Neurology, [6] and the National Institutes of Health, [7] are careful to distinguish the diagnosis and treatment of "patients who have had well-documented Lyme disease and who remain symptomatic for many months to years after ...

  8. Microbiology of Lyme disease - Wikipedia

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    Lyme disease, or borreliosis, is caused by spirochetal bacteria from the genus Borrelia, [1] which has 52 known species. Three species (Borrelia garinii, Borrelia afzelii, and Borrelia burgdorferi s.s.) are the main causative agents of the disease in humans, [2] while a number of others have been implicated as possibly pathogenic. [3][4 ...

  9. Borrelia - Wikipedia

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    Borrelia. Borrelia is a genus of bacteria of the spirochete phylum. [1] Several species cause Lyme disease, also called Lyme borreliosis, a zoonotic, vector-borne disease transmitted by ticks. Other species of Borrelia cause relapsing fever, and are transmitted by ticks or lice, depending on the species of bacteria. [2]

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