I am sorry to hear about what seemed a promising avenue of treatment for the
misnamed "Lyme" disease (it didn't follow the normal naming convention and
computer searches at Babylon come up with Lyme, New Hampshire consistently).
Some independent research in California was inspiring using veterinarian
records to establish its presence.

I had the dubious experience of having been let into the Old Soldiers
Cemetery for archaeology, a block from the Bronx Zoo, and then to call into
the Health Department, as suggested by WNBC TV in NYC, two dead crows there
and later a dead hawk in the speed lane of Bronx River Parkway (said to be
the oldest parkway in the US) back a few years ago and the difficulty of
trying to do that. That was related to the West Nile Virus. Fortunately NYC
has a 311 number now.

Not to be difficult but much use of computer GIS has been used to fight
"crime" ("quality of life") here, removing precincts, and placing police
where GIS said, instead of using it for the original epidemiological
triumph, the map of the tea well that caused the outbreak of the disease.
That is a subjective opinion.

George Myers