Lyme Disease
M. M. Drymon has proposed that Lyme disease was responsible for witches and witch affliction, finding that many of the afflicted in Salem and elsewhere lived in areas that were tick-risky, had a variety of red marks and rashes that looked like bite marks on their skin, and suffered from neurological and arthritic symptoms. Some of the girls in the 2012 cluster outbreak of "Salem-like" symptoms in Le Roy, New York have tested positive for Lyme disease.
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