A five-year-old child was once always active and full of energy but two weeks after visiting her grandma in Sydney, NSW, she could no longer walk. Desperate parents got shuttled from doctor to doctor – about 30 in total – each one diagnosing their child with a different ailment from Juvenile Arthritis to Connecting Tissue Disorder. Until they found out that she acquired a Lyme disease which was caused by a tick bite.
Read the full article here by Markeeta Waddington.
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