30th Anniversary of Lyme Disease -- With No Compassion Observed Community Services Center Unionville, CT 5/7/2005 Medical doctors and researchers present information at the Lyme Disease Conference in Unionville, CT. Lyme disease, a tick borne illness prevalent in Connecticut and throughout the United States is still very controversial thirty years later while many people suffer with the illness. The deer tick is the carrier or vector of the bacteria which orginally comes from mice. Young ticks feed off mice and later as adult ticks transfer it to birds, deer and humans. Symptoms vary from patient to patient and can be chronic fatigue, muscle/joint pain, arthritic, headaches, neurological problems, cognitive difficulties, psychiatric disorders and in some cases, cardiovascular problems. The well known 'bull eyes' rash does not always occur on intial onset causing many people to go untreated resulting in complex cases later in the disease state. The standard teatment protocol is twenty to thirty days of antibiotics. However, Lyme disease medical specialist say this is not enough and can take months to years of antibiotic treatment. Other specilist say Lyme disease bacteria can become a stealth pathogen making it very difficult to treat. Standard testing for Lyme disease is inaccurate and can cause false negatives as well as false positives. A diagnosis of Lyme disease should be a clinical one and not rely on blood testing. Lyme disease can mimic other disorders such as chronic fatigue syndrome resulting in misdiagnosis. Back