As people weary of being cooped up during a pandemic winter look forward to a summer outside, residents across the northeastern United States are once again confronted with a familiar virulent pathogen lurking in the woods and fields. Unlike coronavirus, however, this dangerous microorganism doesn’t float through the air it enters the body through the bite of a tick.
Lyme disease has been a constant scourge since it was identified five decades ago on the Connecticut coastline, before spreading across the New England and Mid-Atlantic states. Caused by the bacterium
Borrelia burgdorferi (and its cousin
Borrelia mayonii), the disease has long baffled scientists with its strangely stealthy manifestations.
But the truck is soon heading out west, ending its business in Massachusetts. It’s with a heavy heart that I write this but at the same time it’s going to be an exciting new adventure for us, chef and owner Robert Kalish wrote in a Facebook post Tuesday afternoon.
With he and his wife Yasmin s children graduating this year, Kalish s family is planning to move to Lawton, Oklahoma, where other family members already live. We have decided to help out our youngest daughter with 2 of our grandkids as she is a single mother and a soldier in the U.S. Army, so we will be packing things up and heading out to FT Sill, Kalish wrote.