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Carol and Bob

About a month ago, Carol Lucking of Sperryville began suffering from flu-like symptoms. After a week of little improvement, she went to McCue who put her on doxycychne, an antibiotic commonly used to treat Lyme

A few days later, Carol's husband, Bob, felt the same symptoms - headaches, joint and muscle soreness, fatigue. He pulled off a deer tick three days before while finishing construction on his house down Old Hollow Road.

“I wasn't going to waste any tune," Bob said. “I immediately started taking Any, cycline. I know what can happen if you let Lymes go for too long”

According to the Virginia Department of Health, initial symptoms of Lyme disease include fever, headache, fatigue, and a characteristic bulls-eye rash called erythema migrans. If left untreated, the spirochetes that cause the infection can infiltrate the joints, the heart, and the nervous system.

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