I take exception to the comment that Lyme Disease is not fatal. Per the CDC article "What you need to know about Lyme carditis" (www.cdc.gov/.../lymecarditis.html), the CDC mentions a number of deaths due to heart block caused by Lyme Disease bacteria interfering with the heart's electrical signals. They state "Based on national surveillance data from 2001-2010, Lyme carditis occurs in approximately 1% of Lyme disease cases reported to CDC." Given that the CDC only recently changed its statistics from 30,000 to 300,000 new cases annually and given the poor reporting due to old laboratory methodologies that lack sensitivity and specificity (testing for only several strains when in fact there are more than 100 different strains), one has to conjecture that many cardiac-related deaths could in fact be due to Lyme carditis but no one is looking. Expect those numbers to dramatically increase as this illness continues to accelerate within the global population due to climate change, lack of awareness, and denial of a chronic form of the disease (this article refers to a "post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome") by the Infectious Diseases Society of America which sets the standard for diagnosis and treatment.