Inside the race to eliminate one of nature’s biggest threats.

Forget about the ticks. A pattern of harm follows “Lyme-literate medical doctors.”

“What am I going to do? Because this isn’t fair. I deserve to have a life, to be functional. Well, I guess I’m going to stick myself with bees.”

What happens when illness becomes an identity?

On the difficulty of diagnosing chronic lyme disease and the persistent struggle to do no harm.

The Lyme-disease infection rate is growing. So is the battle over how to treat it.