i didn't know i was infeed, but i had the flu, the summertime flu. i had not been sick with the flu for about 15 years. i never got sick. i saw a rash, didn't have the bullseye, didn't worry about it. >> that's typilly the rst symptom people talkabout. >> d stricker, you are amy's doctor. thnk you for allowing us to have this conversation. what is lyme disease? >> lym disease i a mor epidemic. e cdc estimates at least 30,000 new cases a year, probably more th that, more common than breast cancer, six times more common than ais. it is a disease tnsmitted by ticks. very often po doneople don't kn they were infected o had aick bite, then they gethese bizarre symptoms and it canbe hard to diagnose. >> we have a picture of a tick. it's so tiny. we have a picture of aick mouth, which is really gross describe how sll this is. >> on the left i probably an adu tick which is relatively big. the nympho tick, the most contagious, is about e size of a poppy se. on the right is an encouraged tick, that's how big it can get en it has a lot of blood meal. >> that so