Lyme Disease — Success for Academia and the Community

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Abstract
Lyme disease belongs to the people. It was a concerned mother in 1975 who informed the state health department in Connecticut that 12 children in the village of Old Lyme (population 5000) had an illness that had been diagnosed as juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Without her observations and those of another woman who reported to the Yale Rheumatology Clinic an "epidemic" of arthritis in her family, this fascinating affliction — which now perhaps has both a known cause and a cure — might have gone much longer without recognition.It is to the credit of members of the rheumatology group at . . .