Four doctors told Susan Mercurio she had MS. Kay Lyon's daughter was prescribed powerful psychiatric drugs and sent to a locked ward. Both had been misdiagnosed; they really suffered from Lyme disease, the tick borne disease that's spreading throughout New England.

Tonight, Peter Mehegan wades into the controversy that surrounds this fast growing illness. And he discovers why one Lyme disease researcher sees very bad news ahead for residents in the 128-495 corridor.

Discuss: Share Your Lyme Disease Story

Show Resources:

“Cure Unknown: Inside The Lyme Epidemic”
Pamela Weintraub
St. Martin’s Press
pam@astralgia.com
Cure Unknown

“Bull’s-Eye: Unraveling the Medical Mystery of Lyme Disease”
Jonathan A. Edlow, M.D.
Yale U. Press
Bull’s-Eye

Support for Charles Ray Jones, M.D., (Lyme pediatrician, New Haven)
ellenluba@yahoo.com
Defend Lyme Doctors

Int’l Lyme and Assoc. Diseases Society (alternate Lyme guidelines)
lymedocs@aol.com
ILADS

Infectious Diseases Society of America (Lyme guidelines)
IDSA Lyme Guidelines

“Under Our Skin” (documentary)
Under Our Skin
Dir. Andy Abrahams Wilson, Open Eye Pictures

Lyme Disease Foundation (support org)
860-870-0070
Lyme Disease Foundation
info@lyme.org

CT Attorney General IDSA Press Release
IDSA/CT Atty Genl Agreement