Fifteen-Year-Old Educates Others About Lyme Disease

Fifteen-Year-Old Educates Others About Lyme Disease

Lyme disease can be a hard journey, but one 15-year-old Cape Cod teenager has turned her experience with the disease into a passion to educating others about it. Marissa Freeman, who first got Lyme at age 9, recently received a community service award from Nauset High School for volunteering 100 hours of her time to educate the public about Lyme disease, a tick-borne illness that can cause flu-like symptoms early on and debilitating arthritis, neurological issues and other serious symptoms later. Read more.