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Displaying 3 items of Wisconsin Watch with the tag "lyme disease".
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Wisconsin’s ‘chronic Lyme’ patients embrace alternative treatments, rack up big bills
August 3rd, 2022 | 20 mins 56 secs
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Sufferers say they go down ‘rabbit holes’ to diagnose a condition that many doctors say does not exist.
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The history of Lyme disease has a Wisconsin chapter. It’s still being written.
April 5th, 2022 | 6 mins 53 secs
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In this latest installment of our series "Living with Lyme" Wisconsin Watch reporter Zhen Wang explores Wisconsin’s key role in the discovery and ongoing research into Lyme disease.
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Doctors debate, patients suffer: The fight over chronic Lyme disease in Wisconsin
March 28th, 2022 | 24 mins 32 secs
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In this story, Wisconsin Watch reporter Zhen Wang profiles Maria Freitas, a woman who for years has suffered from joint pain, brain fog, fever and other maladies. Freitas attributes the symptoms to Lyme disease. But mainstream physicians insist she has rheumatoid arthritis — a diagnosis that she said does not explain many of her symptoms. It's part of Wisconsin Watch's series: "Living with Lyme."