Entomology Today, August 22, 2019 By Melissa Mayer Scientists know a great deal about how blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) feed on hosts, such as whitefooted mice (Peromyscus leucopus) and woodland deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus), but what happens after the ticks drink... Read More »

STAT News (Boston Globe Media), August 22, 2019 by Brittany Flaherty As the threat of Lyme disease grows and fears surrounding it spread faster than the ticks that carry the infection, researchers are developing two vaccine or vaccine-like approaches to prevent this increasingly... Read More »

The 10th meeting of the federal Tick-borne Disease Working Group will be held online Sept. 12, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Eastern Time. According to the Health and Human Services website, at this meeting, the Working Group will receive reports from the eight subcommittees formed... Read More »

The Atlantic, September, 2019 By Meghan O’Rourke In the fall of 1997, after I graduated from college, I began experiencing what I called “electric shocks”—tiny stabbing sensations that flickered over my legs and arms every morning. They were so extreme that as I walked to... Read More »

Governor JB Pritzker has signed two new laws expanding insurance coverage in Illinois. One is for people suffering from Lyme disease, and the other is for children whose allergies require life-saving EpiPens. “This legislation takes a big step forward in protecting our... Read More »

Military.com, August 2, 2019 By Patricia Kime The Defense Department is exploring a replacement for permethrin, the bug repellent and insecticide that is soaked into most military combat uniforms. Officials declined to provide details on the new product, which is still being... Read More »

The Frederick News Post (Virginia newspaper), August 3, 2019: by Heather Mongilio All research at a Fort Detrick laboratory that handles high-level disease-causing material, such as Ebola, is on hold indefinitely after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found the... Read More »

Metro (UK newspaper), July 31, 2019: by Zoe Drewett Andrew McGuinness, 52, was wrongly told he had multiple sclerosis, a brain tumour and even that he had suffered two strokes. In reality, he had been bitten by a tick and become infected with Lyme disease. It would be two painful... Read More »

A resident of New York State has died from Powassan virus, a disease spread by infected ticks. It is the first known Powassan-related fatality in the state this year. Health officials did not identify the person. However, a family friend told the Daily Freeman newspaper that it... Read More »