In New Book, World-Renowned Lyme Disease Expert Dr. Alan Barbour Explains Everything You Need to Know if You Live,Work, or Play in Areas with the Ticks That Carry Disease

Alan G. Barbour, MD, is a professor of medicine and microbiology at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, a co-discoverer of the cause of Lyme disease, and a leading Lyme disease researcher. He has written "Lyme Disease: Why it’s Spreading, How It Makes You Sick, and What To Do about It," which has been published by Johns Hopkins Press. Drawing on case histories, Dr. Barbour explains the course of illness that results from infection, diagnosis and treatment options, and steps that can be taken to avoid a tick bite in the first place. As an expert on tick-borne diseases, he details the course of illness that results from infection, diagnosis and treatment options, and steps that can be taken to avoid a tick bite in the first place. The ticks that transmit Lyme disease may also transmit other disease-causing pathogens, and these other infections are considered as well.