First case

Steere was quoted in the local paper in 1989 as saying that the ffirst
case was that of a woman on Great Island in Yarmouth in 1962..
That Island was the site of the first epidemic (bounded in time and
space) of Lyme from 1979 to 1981. Steere and the Harvard Gang treated
(some of) the victims and published an article on it. In his study of
cases on Great island, Steere used a questionare where the first two
questions were about Bullseye rashes and swollen knees. So for all the
bull*** about
him describing a range of presenting symptoms in his initial articles,
the BE rash and swollen knees were the criteria he used in practice,
and passed on in Grand Rounds.
Not that it impacted my life, or anything.

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