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When she was 10 years old, Julia Rose Bruzzese developed a radiating rash on her leg with two red concentric circles and a central red bullâs-eye. Her pediatrician didnât prescribe antibiotics, and for years after, doctors dismissed Juliaâs worsening symptoms â and her parentsâ concerns that their daughter had untreated Lyme disease.
This is a story of medical ignorance: how an infection was allowed to fester even when safe, generic drugs could have stopped it.
No, this is not about COVID-19. This is a story of Lyme disease.
Before a pandemic came along, Lyme disease was among the most controversial and, in late stages, abysmally treated infection in medicine.
As COVID-19 wanes, the tick-borne illness is still all those things. That is why a 19-year-old woman, who represents chronic Lyme sufferers worldwide, is suing a dozen doctors, a pediatric practice and three hospitals in New York City for medical malpractice.
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