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- From: packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer)
- Subject: Re: Lyme Disease E-mail Network...
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- References: <1992Dec16.161008.69528@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 10:54:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec16.161008.69528@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, mcg2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Marc Gabriel) writes...
- >half a million victims and the number of new patients continues to spiral
- >upward with no relief in sight. It is estimated that in 1991, 100,000
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- As it turns out, a news item in the Thursday NY Times is relevant.
- The Reuters dispatch is headlined "Study of Lyme Disease Finds Little
- Risk in Deer Tick Bites". It cites a study appearing in the latest
- New England Journal of Medicine as saying that "even in a region
- where Lyme disease is common, only 1.2 percent of the people bitten
- by a deer tick become infected."
-