After
accepting the proclamation from Calvert Commissioners’ President Steve
Weems, Cook began exhibiting signs of the chronic Lyme that she first
experienced over 20 years ago. Cook said prior to receiving the
proclamation that the disease, which is caused by a bite from a
blacklegged tick, first manifested itself as joint pain and fatigue.
While medical experts warn that a 'bull’s eye rash' will appear on the
skin of someone bitten by a tick and infected by Lyme, Cook said she and
many others 'never saw the ticks, never saw the bites.' Only about 20
percent of tick bite victims get the rash, said Cook, who added she has
also been told that 'there’s no such thing as ‘chronic’ Lyme disease.'"
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Frederick, MD - After briefly telling her personal story of fighting
Lyme disease, Corinne Jamison Cook unintentionally demonstrated to a
large...