Skip to content
Zack Metcalfe

Zack Metcalfe

Conservation and Travel Journalist

  • Home
  • About Me
  • Contact Me
  • Books

Category: Healthcare

Posted on June 10, 2018June 25, 2018

The Broken Needle: Our Bout with Lyme and its Forsaken Vaccine

Black-Legged Tick

In 1977, after a cluster of cases in a small town of New England, clinicians identified what would become an emerging disease for surrounding states, today infecting tens of thousands annually. And the township in question, its name now carrying a measure of infamy, was Lyme, Connecticut.

Continue reading “The Broken Needle: Our Bout with Lyme and its Forsaken Vaccine”

Recent Posts

  • A Rebellion in the Making
  • Building Bridges: Organic Crusader Preaches Industry Expansion Through Conversations, Not Criticism
  • Where Do You See Organics in Five Years?
  • The 13 Per Cent: NGOs Call For Fulfillment of Nova Scotian Protected Areas
  • Hemlocks in Crisis: Agencies Mobilize in Defence of Iconic Tree

Recent Comments

  • Gren Jones on The 13 Per Cent: NGOs Call For Fulfillment of Nova Scotian Protected Areas
  • Trevor Myles on Hemlocks in Crisis: Agencies Mobilize in Defence of Iconic Tree
  • Mimmi Henriksen on Hemlocks in Crisis: Agencies Mobilize in Defence of Iconic Tree
  • Madeline on The Forest for the Trees: Taking Stock of Our Provincial Old Growth
  • Shelly Hipson on The Forest for the Trees: Taking Stock of Our Provincial Old Growth

Archives

  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • January 2018
  • November 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017

Categories

  • Agriculture
  • Biodiversity
  • Birds
  • Environmental Law
  • Extinction
  • Forestry
  • Habitat
  • Healthcare
  • Housing
  • Insects
  • Invasive Species
  • Marine Life
  • Marine Protected Areas
  • Natural History
  • Nature Conservancy of Canada
  • Nature Trusts
  • New Brunswick
  • New Zealand
  • Nova Scotia
  • Oceans
  • Ontario
  • Organics
  • Outdoor Adventures
  • Parks
  • Parks Canada
  • Prince Edward Island
  • Reptiles
  • Saskatchewan
  • Species-at-Risk
  • Sustainability
  • Travel
  • Waterways

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress.org
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
Proudly powered by WordPress