It is prime season for the tick-borne disease in many parts of the East Coast, including Baltimore, where Dr. Aucott is director of the new Lyme Disease Clinical Research Center at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine’s division of rheumatology.

For most people, Lyme disease, when caught early enough, is resolved after two to four weeks of treatment with antibiotics. But for as much as an estimated 10% of patients treated for the disease, symptoms, such as severe muscle and joint pain, fatigue and cognitive difficulties, can last for months or even years. READ MORE.