A new study has found that activity trackers and other wearable sensors will be able to detect when a person is getting sick.
Researchers from the NPS and the CDC found blacklegged ticks also known as Ixodes scapularis or deer ticks infected with the bacteria that causes Lyme disease in nine eastern national parks.
A new species of bacteria that can cause Lyme disease have been found recently by researchers. This is the second species discovered to transmit the debilitating illness across North America.
Lyme disease is usually transmitted through a bite of an infected blacklegged tick, but CDC has found a new culprit that causes the disease.
The geographic expansion of the ticks can be seen dramatically in the large areas of the U.S. like Vermont, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and New York. Cases of Lyme disease, hence, have increased since 1998.
The reality TV star was diagnosed with the chronic debilitating illness in 2012.
Not all affected by Lyme disease exhibit a "bull's eye" rash; some of them may suffer from spontanous knee effusion or "water on the knee" as a main symptom of the infection.
Lyme disease has been spreading across the United States, according to some reports.
