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Lyme Disease...?

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I heardif you got Lyme Disease you can't get it again. Is that true?

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Lyme disease is a multisystem inflammatory disease caused by spirochetes, known collectively as Borrelia burgdorferi, which are spread by the bite of infected Ixodes ticks.(Lyme disease is an inflammatory condition caused by an infection with bacteria called Borrelia burgdorferi. Ticks carry these bacteria and transmit the bacteria to humans when they bite.)
Early localized disease includes erythema migrans (EM) and associated findings. EM occurs in up to 90 percent of patients, usually within one month after the tick bite. EM is not present or not detected or recalled in the remaining patients. Only about 30 percent of patients with Lyme disease recall the tick bite.
People at greatest risk are those who spend the most time out of doors in an "at-risk" environment:

1-Adventuresome and exploring children get Lyme disease more often than sedentary adults.
2-Telephone linesmen, people involved in forestry or other outdoor maintenance work in endemic areas, hunters, campers, orienteers, and hikers, are all at increased risk.
3-People who garden where there are lots of deer or near brush or scrub on the verge of forest are also at increased risk.
4-Those living in houses with bird feeders (because mice feed on dropped seeds) and nearby old stone walls (because mice live within these structures) may also be at risk.
5-People who live on property on the verge of or within a forest frequented by deer are at risk, especially if the areas between the forest and their land has brush and forest litter on the ground.
The best way to prevent Lyme disease is to know the areas of greatest risk and to take appropriate personal precautions following possible exposures.
there were vaccination for lyme disease. but it isn't used now for its sideaffects.howeverever in vaccination we didn't have good protection. Protective antibodies against OspA decline over time in the absence of booster doses of vaccine. Most patients are protected for one year after vaccination, and approximately 50 percent are protected for two years . As a result, patients who have been vaccinated in the past should be advised that they are no longer being protected from developing Lyme disease and personal precautions should not be abandoned. In addition, as mentioned above, even if they continue to have vaccine-induced protection against Lyme disease they are not protected against other tick-borne illnesses.

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No that's not true:

Lyme disease is a bacterial infection. Even if successfully treated, a person may become reinfected if bitten later by another infected tick.
not true I have friends that have had more than once I had it once and my Dr. still checks every time I am in there