from NBC TODAY

March 2009

March 10, 2009 The tragedy death of a pastor had in Illinois has led to a national Lyme disease debate.

The man charged with murdering the pastor reportedly suffered from Lyme disease. Dr. Brian Fallon, head of the Columbia University Medical Center's Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Center, has described psychiatric manifestations of Lyme disease in the early 1990's. Brian Fallon, had described psychiatric manifestations in his recently published National Institutes of Health (NIH) trials. "Many of my Lyme disease patients experience anxiety, panic, rage, and depression during their illness," according to Dr. Daniel Cameron, President, International Lyme and Associated Diseases