Tick Checks, Bug Spray and Antibiotics: Summer in the Age of Lyme

"Never have I heard so many friends, acquaintances and strangers complain of being laid low by the disease. My neighbor one house down was just released from the hospital with a serious case, a friend’s son had it twice this spring, and my mother’s dog was just diagnosed with its third case in two years. (In fact, I just finished mashing doxycycline pills into a bowl of Alpo, a highly unpleasant task, but it’s the only way I can get the dog to take its medicine.)"

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/12/tick-checks-bug-spray-and-antibiotics-summer-in-the-age-of-lyme/