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In this video Dr. Steven Harris discusses the history of Lyme disease. He emphasizes that this disease has been underreported for years by the CDC and backs that up by mentioning how the CDC statistics for Lyme disease went from 33,000 to over 300,000 cases a year almost over night. It was also interesting that the CDC still believes that this is an underestimation like many cases in America. He talks about the various ways one can contract Lyme including how a mother can transmit Lyme to the developing fetus and some likelihood that there has been transmission through breast milk. He discusses the significant social and financial impact of the disease and why there continues to be controversy about the definition of late stage Lyme. Over the next five to ten years he sees the field of Lyme disease changing vastly. He expresses his hopes for funding that is mostly coming from private resources to continue to find a better way to test for the disease and treat it.

Steven Harris, M.D. has been in private practice since 2001. Dr Harris is a medical doctor (MD), board certified in Family Practice. His private practice was opened as a sole proprietorship until 2006, after which he formed a California medical corporation, Pacific Frontier Medical, Inc.

Since 2001 Dr Harris has focused his practice on the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease and other tick-borne co-infections. In his approach to Lyme disease he incorporates strategies found in conventional, functional and complimentary medicine. He believes that there are many effective treatments available to those with chronic and persistent Lyme.

Dr Harris has taken a leadership role in lymedisease.org (formerly CALDA -The California Lyme disease Association), a research, patient advocate group which has been largely responsible for spearheading favorable legislation protecting patients rights, expanding Lyme disease awareness and fostering continued public health education. Dr Harris is also an active member of ILADS (The International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society). This is a professional medical society of physicians and scientists, which has become the authority on effective treatment for chronic Lyme disease.

Dr Harris graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles. He went on to Howard University for medical school and then completed a family practice residency at the University of Illinois in Chicago.