UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., July 15 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:
HERSHEY, Pa. - Brittani Snyder, of York, never imagined a tick bite would change her life. A few weeks after she was bitten in July 2025, she woke up unable to move the left side of her face. She rushed to the emergency room, sure she was having a stroke. Doctors ruled out stroke and diagnosed Bell's palsy, a form of facial paralysis without an identifiable cause. Later, testing showed she had Lyme disease from a tick bite, which likely caused her facial nerve damage.
Snyder was prescribed antibiotics, an antiviral medication and a steroid. At first, her symptoms improved, but three months later, her face began to twitch, and movement became ...