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...arthritis-like pain and fever among residents near the Connecticut community of Lyme in 1975, at least 100,000 Americans have been infected with the disease. Now endemic throughout the Northeast as well as parts of the Midwest and the West Coast, Lyme disease is caused by a corkscrew-shaped bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi. It is spread by the bite of ticks that usually live on mice and deer but also attach themselves to other warm-blooded creatures, including people. Typically, within a month of a bite, a large, bull's-eye rash shows up at the site, accompanied...
Within a tiny three-inch by three-inch cube of space, a bright red corkscrew spiral appeared out of thin air and began to rotate in three dimensions...
...lady wearing a blond wig and looking something like Joan Rivers comes out of a door next to Wally's holding a corkscrew. She opens the bar door and then turns around. "What are you waiting for, baby?" she asks. "You can go in there. They like white people in there." She smiles, as if she just told a good joke. Seeing a blank face, she presses harder. "Don't you know Wally's? It's famous. Everybody knows Wally's. Why, just yesterday we had Branford Marseilles come in here to drink a glass of wine and play...
...your report on the T-3, the propeller-driven trainer flown by cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy that has killed six people in three crashes [NATION, Jan. 12]. By suggesting that the failure of the plane's single engine has caused the aircraft to fall and corkscrew into the ground, you perpetuate the misunderstanding that flying and airplanes are inherently dangerous. The truth is that a good pilot will almost always walk away uninjured from an engine failure by finding an open space on the ground and gliding the plane to a forced but safe landing. LAWRENCE...
...facts are clear. Lyme disease is caused by one of a group of corkscrew-shaped bacteria called spirochetes. It is spread when infected deer ticks, or other members of the genus Ixodes, bite their potential hosts, which include field mice, wood rats and suburbanites. Lyme has become endemic in the Northeastern U.S. It has also been found in Canada, Europe and Australia. The initial infection is usually accompanied by an expanding red rash, which generally, but not always, resembles a bull's-eye. Caught early enough, the Lyme infection can be completely cleared by taking oral antibiotics...