Lyme disease is as hard to detect as a ‘needle in a haystack.’ But a new breakthrough could change that

The bacterium that causes Lyme disease is a stealthy predator that can hide in patients’ bodies for weeks, months, even years, and researchers say detecting it can be like finding “a needle in a haystack” – but Canadian scientists are developing tools that can diagnose the country’s most common vector-borne illness much earlier and much faster. At the G. Magnotta Lab on the campus of the…

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