{"id":10210,"date":"2025-09-03T15:11:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10210"},"modified":"2025-09-03T15:11:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:11:26","slug":"sorting-lyme-disease-fact-from-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/09\/03\/sorting-lyme-disease-fact-from-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorting Lyme disease fact from fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/stories\/2025\/09\/sorting-lyme-disease-fact-from-fiction\">Stanford Report<\/a> An infectious disease expert explains the tick-borne illness and why it\u2019s so often misunderstood by patients and the practitioners advising them. A significant portion of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.stanford.edu\/jake-scott\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Jake Scott, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jake Scott<\/a>\u2019s practice involves helping patients who believe they have \u201cchronic Lyme disease\u201d understand what may actually be causing their symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy role combines patient care with education,\u201d said the infectious disease physician at Stanford Medicine. \u201cI try to ensure that people are diagnosed accurately rather than being misdiagnosed and overtreated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lyme disease is caused by a bite from a tick infected with the bacteria&nbsp;<em>Borellia burgdorferi<\/em>. It typically begins with flu-like symptoms such as fatigue, fever, headache, and muscle aches, often accompanied by a distinctive bull\u2019s-eye rash at the site of the bite. If left untreated, the infection can spread and cause other symptoms, mainly joint pain but sometimes also fatigue, headaches and neck stiffness, rashes, and heart palpitations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cChronic Lyme disease\u201d is a controversial term used by some practitioners to describe ongoing symptoms they attribute to a persistent infection, often diagnosed using unvalidated tests. The condition isn\u2019t recognized by mainstream medicine because studies consistently show no evidence of&nbsp;<em>Borellia<\/em>&nbsp;after appropriate antibiotic treatment. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention instead uses the term post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome for the small percentage of properly treated patients who experience lingering symptoms.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"YddfK x KwCI  rYUp fwtaixC\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanford Report An infectious disease expert explains the tick-borne illness and why it\u2019s so often misunderstood by patients and the practitioners advising them. A significant portion of&nbsp;Jake Scott\u2019s practice involves helping patients who believe they have \u201cchronic Lyme disease\u201d understand what may actually be causing their symptoms. \u201cMy role combines patient care with education,\u201d said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tick-bourne-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10211,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10210\/revisions\/10211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}