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In honor of Lyme Disease Awareness Month, the latest issue of the digital Lyme Times is open access–freely available to all. This special issue offers excerpts of 12 important Lyme books, with topics ranging from personal experience with Lyme and co-infections, various healing... Read More »

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 »

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 »

MilTICK is a free tick testing and identification service available for ticks removed from Department of Defense (DoD) personnel and their dependents. Any tick found biting an eligible person can be submitted to MilTICK by health care providers through tick kits available at DoD... Read More »

By Alexandra Todak, Healio.com Patients with alpha-gal syndrome reported many physical and mental effects along with a profound quality-of-life impact, according to survey results presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting. Understanding... Read More »

Topics covered in latest issue of the Lyme Times include:           Lyme disease and your brain           Head trauma and Lyme           Curing Alzheimer’s?           An antibiotic that targets Lyme without hurting your gut           Excerpt of Ross Douthat’s riveting... Read More »