Lyme Disease: Small Tick Leaves Large Footprint

Lyme Disease: Small Tick Leaves Large Footprint

Patricia A. Lind figures that between the time her daughter contracted Lyme disease 15 years ago when she was 4, until she was diagnosed three years ago, she just about heard it all. Mrs. Lind, a former medical assistant, said when she found the tiny black-legged deer tick behind her daughter’s ear, she pulled it off, put it in a bag and called the pediatrician. “They told me to throw the tick away and not to bring my daughter in. She would be fine,” she recalled. “If you hadn’t been to Lyme, Conn., or to the Cape, you don’t have Lyme disease. That’s the way it was handled back then. It’s just starting to change.” Read more.