Wormser comments innaccurate
By Linda on Mar 22, 2011 in Infections | comments(0)
Linda’s comments: This comment by Wormser raises my blood pressure ::::“It is so new in our area, it has flown under the radar,” says Moore’s physician Gary P. Wormser, M.D., the chief of infectious diseases at Westchester Medical Center and New York Medical College and head of a team researching tick diseases. “A lot of patients haven’t heard of it, and a lot of doctors don’t know about it.”::::
Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41973641/ns/health-infectious_diseases/
Excerpt:
Wild raspberries lured Jacqueline Moore over the wall of her new garden in Westchester County, New York. It was July 2008, and Moore, her husband and their two small kids had just moved up from Manhattan. She was painting the kitchen, up on a ladder, when she glanced out the window and spotted the flash of red. She was thrilled: This was what they had left the city for. She called the kids, and they hopped over the wall. They picked raspberries every day for two weeks.
About the time the berries ran out, Moore—who was 34 then, a personal trainer and marathoner—started feeling an achein her neck and shoulder. She thought painting the ceiling was to blame; or maybe it was the borrowed mattress she and her husband were sleeping on. Then she noticed herself getting irritable. Family were visiting to see the new house, and “I was having trouble taking care of the guests,” she recalls. “Every day, I would be twice as tired as I had been the day before.” …..
“It is so new in our area, it has flown under the radar,” says Moore’s physician Gary P. Wormser, M.D., the chief of infectious diseases at Westchester Medical Center and New York Medical College and head of a team researching tick diseases. “A lot of patients haven’t heard of it, and a lot of doctors don’t know about it.”
