Trail Medic: Lyme Disease
There’s lots of dangers inherent in trail running, risks we all accept as part of the experience of going wild. One of them prevalent across many trail running nations can leave runners bedridden, yet you won’t see the culprit coming. US-based Murray Susser, MD, gives oversight to the problem of ticks and the particularly nasty disease they can infect you with. It was supposed to be an ‘easy’ 6-hour 1-minute, 50-mile (80km) race, back in 1990. Two days later, Bart Yasso,...
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