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Carolyn Degnan delivered the following public comment to the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group on April 27, 2022. Good morning. I am the Chief Operating Officer of LymeDisease.org. I also have two daughters with long term Lyme disease. One has been sick since 2002 and is... Read More »

The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed a fatal case of Powassan virus infection in a resident of that state. The adult developed neurologic symptoms and died while in the hospital. According to health officials, this person likely became infected in... Read More »

From the Boston Globe, April 21, 2022: NANTUCKET — As spring emerged on this island of manicured estates and idyllic beaches, a group of scientists from the Boston area arrived on a recent afternoon with an extraordinary request for local officials: Let us release hordes of... Read More »

The Clinical Trials Network for Lyme and Other Tick-borne Diseases, established with a grant from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation to Columbia University, aims to find more effective treatments for people suffering from Lyme-related conditions. Under the leadership of... Read More »

A pioneer in the fight against Lyme disease, Dr. Nick Harris, the founder of IGeneX, Inc., has died. In the 1990s. Dr. Harris developed a groundbreaking diagnostic test for Lyme disease, which has helped untold thousands of Lyme patients to get accurately diagnosed. The company... Read More »

Illinois State Rep. Dan Swanson has earned unanimous support for HR 780, a House Resolution that declares May 2022 as Lyme Disease Awareness Month. Swanson, a member of the House Lyme Disease Task Force, says the Resolution is meant to encourage the federal government to do more... Read More »

The next meetings of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group will be held online April 27-28. Click here for the agenda. Click here to join the meeting.         . Read More »

Doug Dollemore, University of Utah Understanding how and why Lyme arthritis occurs has puzzled scientists for decades. In a step toward unraveling this mystery, University of Utah Health researchers report they have discovered a new genetic pathway that could help explain why... Read More »

Bonnie Crater, of the Center for Lyme Action, provides the following update on federal Lyme disease funding. Nearly three times the funding in three years Our work together in the last few years has been very effective.  When we started on this journey Lyme and Tick-borne disease... Read More »