For Elena Zajac and her family, a small tick bite changed their lives forever.

The Cromwell mother of two remembers that in the 80s she had a small rash on her chest when she was a child – but really didn’t know what it was.

"I went undiagnosed for the next 11 years but I became a sickly child I had chronic infections; my immune system was slowly getting affected by it," she said.

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