1. Jake Bagwell and Courtney Radtke-Sartore
Lyme disease
Jake Bagwell and Courtney Radtke-Sartore

2. Lyme Disease
Lyme disease is a bacterial disease that is spread by ticks that carry around the bacteria Spirochetes.
Lyme disease has been around since 1975, when it got its name after several cases were identified.
First signs of Lyme disease are, fatigue and aches, and circular rash

4. Symptoms
When having Lyme disease early symptoms may include fever, headache, fatigue, depression and characteristic circular rash.
Later symptoms may be failure in in joints, heart and central nervous system
The most common symptom appearing in people infection is the circular rash called erythema Migrans (EM)

5. Cures or antibiotics for Lyme disease
Some medicines include amoxicillin and doxycycline which usually last up to days depending on age
Amoxicillin is an oral antibiotic used for upper respiratory infections.
Doxycycline is an antibiotic used to treat bacterial infections

6. Lyme disease on a cellular level

7. Who gets it and who spreads it
Any one who spends time out side and especially kids and elders.
Animals like dogs and cats usually get it
The tick comes from a deer which was infected

8. History
The disease is named after the towns of Lyme and old Lyme in Connecticut, USA, where a number of cases involving people of all ages were identified in 1975

9. Current research
At the Columbia university medical center they are using brain SPECT imaging with chronic Lyme disease

10. How the disease spreads
Lyme disease is spread is spread by a black leg tick also known as a Lyme disease
It can also be spread by the dear tick

11. Work cited
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