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Dr. Robin J. Thomson from Naturopathic Family Medicine, LLC: Do We Have Lyme Disease in Montana?
In a nutshell, I believe we do have Lyme disease in Montana. This is a very controversial issue, and not everyone agrees with me. In my opinion Lyme tends not to be diagnosed in Montana more often because most physicians don’t test for it. (If we didn’t test for HINI flu virus, we wouldn’t have that disease in Montana, either!) Here are some points to consider:
There have been newspaper reports of a mysterious “Lyme-like illness” in Montana. The illness looks like Lyme, and has even been preceded with a bull’s-eye rash in some cases. The argument has generally been that we don’t have deer ticks in Montana, so we can’t have Lyme disease in Montana. However, there is evidence of transmission by other types of ticks and possibly other insects. See the Missoulian article for the full details at Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation.