Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> state that symptoms can vary depending on whether it\u2019s early or late in the infection. Early on in the infection sufferers will most likely experience symptoms similar to flu, such as aches in the joints and muscles, fever with chills and swelling of the lymph nodes. Later symptoms often present a few days or even months after the initial bite, and entail drooping muscle tone in the face (also known as facial palsy), shortness of breath, numbness in the hands or feet and neck stiffness. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For people living in Pennsylvania, certain times of the year bring about an increased risk of contracting Lyme disease. While this condition can usually be treated effectively if caught early, it is commonly misdiagnosed by doctors due to its similarity to many different ailments. Failure to properly treat Lyme disease can lead to a host […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pflo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pflo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pflo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pflo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pflo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pflo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/pflo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pflo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pflo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pflo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}