Outdoor industry guru, Babe Winkelman, is taking the education challenge head-on in an effort to raise awareness about ticks and the dangerous illnesses they can carry via his Tick-Borne Illness Information Center. Winkelman, a 3-time Lyme disease survivor himself, whose daily office is the great outdoors, knows firsthand the debilitating effects of just one, tiny tick bite. “Many of my outdoor industry friends and colleagues were misdiagnosed. By the time they found out that the true culprit for all of their painful symptoms was Lyme, they were in the midst of living hell, literally fighting for their lives,” shares Winkelman. “Others, such as one of my very own employees, lost their battle to Lyme.”
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