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First Lyme Disease Case This Summer Recorded In Lafayette

Watch out for Mr. Tick. If you walk around these parts - or have a pet who does the same - you may want to check to see if you have any tiny hitch-hikers aboard.

Lafayette City Manager Steven Falk reported in his Friday Summary this week that a local youth living in the Hawthorne Road neighborhood was recently diagnosed with Lyme Disease.

No small thing and we wish the person well. Hard to believe that an insect just bigger than a tic-tac could unleash this snowballing effect of medical maladies. Caught early enough most sufferers come out unscathed but everyone should know to cover up when tromping through our pastures and oak woodlands...

... and to brush the family pet with an eye toward catching any ticks that may have climbed aboard.

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