Update: After a further check-up, Arnaud De Lie was diagnosed with the Lyme disease after having found antibodies for Lyme in his blood. It's possibly, as a Lyme diagnosis is never 100% conclusive, the reason why De Lie couldn't perform on a high level the past races. (1) https://t.co/xjPBV6mh51
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In detail, Lyme disease or Lyme borreliosis, is transmitted during a bite from a tick infected with a borrelia, a bacteria from the spirochete family. The infection is often without symptoms but can in certain cases lead to a sometimes disabling illness, as explained by Santé Public France. Rarely fatal, it can cause flu-like symptoms, including muscle and joint pain, headache, nausea and vomiting.< /p>