Juliet Rose, from Harrow, UK, is 25 years old, weighs just 70-pounds, is confined to a wheelchair and can no longer eat solid food because of her Lyme disease. She believes she has harboured the infection, spread by ticks, since childhood. Juliet has not long to live.
"This is an illness that has been minimized, underestimated, and politicized," says investigative reporter May Beth Pfeiffer in her new book, Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change. Non-specific symptoms and other complexities make tackling Lyme a formidable challenge.