Quotes About Lyme Disease

#1. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has established highly specific criteria for the diagnosis of Lyme disease: an acknowledged tick bite, the appearance of a bull's-eye rash, and, for those who don't live in a region where Lyme is common, laboratory evidence of infection.

Michael Specter

#2. I'm the only one in - of my siblings, my mom and my family - that hasn't been affected by Lyme disease. It's been really hard for me because I'm the only one that doesn't really understand it.

Gigi Hadid

#3. I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. I'll take an angry moose any day.

Don Kardong

#4. I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise.

Rebecca Wells

#5. You can't believe that AIDS is a curse from God against Gays without accepting that Lyme Disease is a curse from the same God against Deer Hunters ...

T. Rafael Cimino

#6. Lyme disease is the most commonly reported tick-borne illness in the United States, and the incidence is growing rapidly. In 2009, the C.D.C. reported thirty-eight thousand cases, three times more than in 1991. Most researchers agree that the true number of infections is five to ten times higher.

Michael Specter

#7. If left untreated, Lyme disease can be crippling, yet it is a difficult illness to contract: a tick needs to attach itself to your body for at least twenty-four hours. Even then, two weeks worth of commonly prescribed antibiotics will kill the bacterium.

Michael Specter

#8. The numbers matter: underreporting of Lyme disease obscures the true burden of the illnesses, on individuals as well as on health-care systems. It also makes it harder to convince Congress to fund research.

Michael Specter

#9. I think she was from Connecticut, but not fancy Connecticut, with the money and the Kennedy cousins and the Lyme disease. I think she was from New Haven, or Bridgeport.

Lev Grossman

#10. I had the idea of 'Live From Daryl's House' way before I contracted Lyme disease.

Daryl Hall

#11. Not enough people know what Lyme disease is and the dangers of being bitten by an insect.

Gigi Hadid

#12. Lyme disease, psittacosis, Q fever: These three differ wildly in their particulars but share two traits in common. They are all zoonotic and they are all bacterial. They stand as reminders that not every bad, stubborn, new bug is a virus.

David Quammen

#13. I am not Lyme disease, that's not who I am, I'm still a feminist artist, but this is a part of my story too, and I'm not going to keep it out to look cooler.

Kathleen Hanna

#14. Convincing biologic evidence exists for symptomatic chronic B. burgdorferi infection in patients after recommended treatment regimens for Lyme disease.

David Quammen

#15. For everything that's known about Lyme disease, there are still an extraordinary number of unknowns in some fairly fundamental areas.

Vanessa Farnsworth

#16. Lyme disease is preventable, but only if Canadians have the information they need to prevent it.

Vanessa Farnsworth

#17. There is no fun than helping to make someone's dreams come true Especially when that person is ayoung person and who really want it and really dserve it

Oprah Winfrey

#18. Lyme is a word. Not a sentence.

Rebecca VanDeMark

#19. You can't teach calculus to a chimpanzee. So just share your banana.

John Rachel

#20. It's okay that I got sick, I suddenly realize. If Lyme hadn't taken me down so radically, I wouldn't have learned about stillness. I would not have discovered my enormous capacity to endure. I would have not have embraced this deeply contemplative place within my own being.

Katina Makris

#21. What is man's chief enemy? Each man is his own.

Anacharsis Cloots

#22. At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.

Yara Shahidi

#23. On this journey with our disease we may experience all of the emotions I listed and more, including feeling hopeless about the present and about the future, but our God f hope quietly and tenderly reminds us to hope even when everything feels hopeless.

Rebecca VanDeMark

#24. Bow down, I am the emperor of dreams.

Clark Ashton Smith

#25. I believe evidence is overwhelming that chronic Lyme is a terrible, overwhelming disease, and we need to find ways to treat this. To say otherwise is an inaccurate and unscientific opinion.

Chris Smith

#26. No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.

John Vinocur

#27. I've never loved anyone the way I love you," he whispered.
"Lucky them.

Melissa Marr

#28. As a bubble you cannot change the world, this is obvious, but you can still make a child happy! Even the most worthless things can achieve very noteworthy things!

Mehmet Murat Ildan