Author: Dr. Daniel Cameron
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Severity of Lyme disease even without contracting COVID-19 or being vaccinated against COVID-19 findings
HIGHLIGHTS Question: What is the clinical presentation of someone with a history of Lyme disease who has not contracted COVID-19 or taken the COVID-19 vaccine? Findings: This cross-sectional Survey reveals a high symptom burden in 289 individuals with a history of Lyme Disease who had not contracted COVID-19 or taken the COVID-19 vaccine. They had…
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Severity of Lyme disease even without contracting COVID-19
Cases The burden of illness for individuals with a history of Lyme disease can be high Case 1: A 68-year-old woman with a history of a deer tick bite, but no rash or a swollen knee. She is not sure which tests were positive. She had been ill for 9 years and had been treated…
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Concerns individuals with a history of Lyme disease have with the COVID-19 vaccine.
Cases of Lyme Disease and COVID-19 Case 1: A 45-year-old white woman with a partial college education was working as a groundskeeper. She had a history of Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, irritable bowel syndrome, and viral meningitis. She had been ill for 37 years. There was not a history of a deer tick bite or erythema migrans.…
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In for the Long Haul: Lyme & COVID-19
This video is about a free webinar Q&A with Jennifer Crystal, noted Lyme patient and writer, on COVID-19 and Lyme disease in 2021. The video was sponsored by Global Lyme Alliance. This webinar Q&A helped inspire me to devote the past year to sponsor a COVID & Lyme Survey. I will be discussing cases and…
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COVID-Lyme disease survey: First findings, a discussion with Dr. Horowitz
Welcome to another Inside Lyme Podcast with your host Dr. Daniel Cameron. In this episode, Dr. Cameron teams up with Dr. Richard Horowitz to discuss findings from a survey entitled, Burden of COVID-19 and the COVID-19 vaccine for individuals with Lyme disease. By Dr. Daniel Cameron Nearly 800 people (n=782) participated in the survey. 84%…
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Sjögren’s syndrome secondary to Lyme disease
In this Inside Lyme Podcast, I discuss the case of a 43-year-old woman with Sjögren’s syndrome secondary to Lyme disease. The woman’s diagnosis was changed from possible Lymphoma to primary Sjögren’s syndrome to secondary Sjögren’s syndrome. By Dr. Daniel Cameron Smiyan and her colleague first discussed this case in the journal Reumatologia in 2019. CLICK BELOW TO…
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Clinical presentation of individuals with a history of Lyme-disease-and-covid-19/
Cases of Lyme Disease and COVID-19 Case 1: A 45-year-old white woman with a partial college education was working as a groundskeeper. She had a history of Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, irritable bowel syndrome, and viral meningitis. She had been ill for 37 years. There was not a history of a deer tick bite or erythema migrans.…
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Soldier dismissed from active duty after failing Lyme disease treatment
Welcome to another Inside Lyme Podcast with your host Dr. Daniel Cameron. In this episode, Dr. Cameron will be discussing the case of a 21-year-old soldier who was dismissed from active duty after failing treatment for multiple illnesses including Lyme disease. By Dr. Daniel Cameron The case was first described by Melanson and colleagues in…
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Are military family members at risk for Lyme disease?
A study by Schubert and Melanson, entitled “Prevalence of Lyme Disease Attributable to Military Service at the USMA, West Point NY: FY2016–2018,” looks at the exposure of military personnel and their families to the Ixodes scapularis (or black-legged) tick, the vector of Lyme disease. [1] The authors examined cases of Lyme disease treated at a…
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Lyme disease: An underdiagnosed cause of mono-arthritis?
Welcome to another Inside Lyme Podcast with your host Dr. Daniel Cameron. In this episode, Dr. Cameron will be discussing the case of a 26-year-old man who was diagnosed with mono-arthritis after his clinical evaluation overlooked the possibility of Lyme disease. The case was described by Marcelis and colleagues in a paper entitled “Lyme disease:…