Dr. Eva Sapi discusses her Lyme disease research and how and why she became involved in it in Prevention Magazine:
"Sapi's motivation is personal: In 2001, she was working as a cancer researcher at the University of New Haven when she was perplexed to find that she was forgetting names and basic information. "For a young researcher, that was a struggle," she says. An MRI revealed lesions in her brain. She was terrified. These can be a symptom of late-stage Lyme disease, and though Sapi was an avid hiker who spent plenty of time in deer country, results from the CDC-recommended Lyme test came back negative. Not knowing what else to do and fairly convinced it was Lyme, she sought out alternative tests and doctors who would start her on treatment. "At this point I was in such bad shape, I would have taken snake oil," Sapi says.
She was treated with antimicrobial herbs, and her recovery was slow. It took 2 years for her to start to feel better, and she's still not completely back to normal. During her recuperation, Sapi made the midcareer transition from cancer research to infectious diseases."
