A Utah woman contracted Lyme disease after she was bitten by a tick during a hike near Nephi earlier this week.
Bonnie Smith told FOX 13 she felt fine until she woke up Thursday, the day after the hike.
“Really painful, achy joints, muscles and really, really weak,” Smith said. “I don’t have the energy to do anything.”
She later found a small tick on her and went to the doctor, who prescribed her antibiotics, FOX 13 reports.
While Utah was once considered to be relatively safe from Lyme and other insect-borne diseases because of its long, cold winters, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows reports of Lyme disease in Utah have been trending upward over the past decade and a half, The Salt Lake Tribune has reported.
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