Mosquitoes and ticks trapped in amber, still carrying ancient infections, yield important clues about the spread of vector-borne diseases. by Steve Lundberg, Oregon State University The microorganisms that cause malaria, leishmaniasis and a variety of other illnesses today can be... Read More »

After a year of long hours and hard work, the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group has handed in its 2018 report to Congress. Now, it’s time for the second phase of the process to begin, with the next report to Congress due in 2020. The U.S. Department of Health and Human... Read More »

The Illinois legislature has unanimously overridden Gov. Bruce Rauner’s veto of a bill to allow doctors more leeway in using antibiotics to treat Lyme disease. House Bill 4515 — also known as the Lauryn Russell Lyme Disease Prevention & Protection Law — was initiated by State... Read More »

NewsCenterMaine (NBC), November 9, 2018 By Vivien Leigh …a small number of kids in Maine didn’t contract Lyme through a tick bite. Instead, doctors believe the disease was passed to them in the womb through their moms living with undiagnosed Lyme for years. Watch here: Read More »

The Tick-Borne Disease Working Group has issued its first report to Congress. The document calls on the federal government to focus more resources on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease. The panel was first convened in December 2017, in accordance with the... Read More »

The CDC’s 2017 Lyme disease statistics are in: 42,743 “reported” cases. Using the CDC’s own estimate that Lyme is under-reported by a factor of 10, that’s puts the yearly number at closer to 427, 430 cases, the highest it’s ever been. “Reported” means only those cases that meet... Read More »

Researchers shine light on the link between Borrelia spirochetes and a mysterious skin condition. Morgellons disease is frequently associated with Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), the agent of Lyme disease, as well as tick-borne relapsing fever Borrelia (RFB), according to a study... Read More »

A recent study in “Scientific Reports” (an online, open access journal from the publishers of Nature) showed that 65% of Lyme disease patients—at all stages of the illness—were infected with more than one microbe. Furthermore, the researchers from University of Jyväskylä in... Read More »

Legislation co-sponsored by Senator Tom O’Mara, a member of the Senate Task Force on Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases (TBDs), to strengthen New York State’s response to the rise of these diseases has been signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo. The new laws were enacted earlier... Read More »