Jill Kargman, author and actress who created the Bravo show “Odd Mom Out” was present at a dinner party in Greenwich, Conn. where discussion on ticks was carried out. She said that a growing fear of diseases borne by the arachnid was being discussed over there.

She said spouses and their children that are being checked every night. Ms. Kargman talked about frequent visits to emergency room of the Nantucket Cottage Hospital for drugs such as doxycycline, which is the antibiotic used for Lyme disease and is at present, nicknamed as “doxy”, following finding the reported bull’s-eye rash that sometimes tells about it. Ms. Kargman has three children.

According to her, she goes into a Lyme fear, for the reason that her children love playing Roll Down the Hill. As per another person at the party, Emily Stern who is also a mother of three was diagnosed with ehrlichiosis, which is a tick-borne illness, a number of days following she attended a barbecue that has increased her alertness.

According to Ms. Stern, a psychologist, “That’s the cocktail party conversation: ‘Is it brain fog or is it Lyme?’ It has that feeling of an epidemic. It’s so on the forefront of everyone’s thinking”.

It was announced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in July that from 1993 to 2012, Northeastern counties having “high incidence” of Lyme had rose by over 320%. It was estimated by CDC that the number of Americans who are diagnosed with Lyme disease yearly is approximately 300,000.