Sept 03, 2009 ~ Raising awareness about Lyme disease

ALBANY, GA (WALB) - Area doctors are trying to spread the word about a disease that could be lurking under your skin.

Thursday night the Dougherty County Medical Society showed a film called "Under Your Skin" that documents stories of people whose lives have been affected by lyme disease.

You get the illness from ticks, but cases are often misdiagnosed or undetected.

"It starts off as a rash right where you got the tick bite sometimes it's so subtle that it's missed beyond that people are going to get joint pains then it could go on and cause cardiac issues neurological issues," said Dr. Melinda Greenfield, Dermatologist.

The Lyme Disease Association says they are about 14,000 new infections in the U.S. each year but only about 10 percent are reported.

~Property of WALB News, Archived here only for the purpose of raising awareness about Lyme disease

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Wrote a Lyme disease brochure with the help of 2 Lyme specialists. Will email to anyone interested.