Lyme Disease Awareness Month: What to know as ticks become more active

CHICAGO (WGN) – May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month. As the temperatures rise and people spend more time outdoors, tick bites become more common.

Ali Moresco has Lyme Disease and is the “Project Lyme” board chair and joined WGN News at 4 to tell us more.

“I think one of the biggest misconceptions about Lyme disease is that you get a tick bite, you take a round of doxycycline and that’s it, you’re fine, and in reality if you do not diagnose the infection accurately or quickly, you end up like me with long term symptoms and unfortunately there is

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