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By Melissa Wright COVID-19 has created a ‘new normal’ for many of us over the last year. The way we live, work, and shop for our daily needs has been drastically modified. An unprecedented number of people in the United States have contracted the illness and many have lost loved... Read More »

Birds play an underrecognized role in spreading tick-borne disease due to their capacity for long-distance travel and tendency to split their time in different parts of the world – patterns that are shifting due to climate change. Knowing which bird species are able to infect... Read More »

Consumer Reports, January 13, 2021 By Catherine Roberts Between 2010 and 2018, the U.S. had approximately 476,000 cases of Lyme disease every year, according to a study out today from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That number is substantially higher than... Read More »

Update: The president signed this into law on Dec. 27, 2020. From Bonnie Crater, of the Center for Lyme Action: Congratulations to all you Lyme advocates who played a key role in getting historic increases for Lyme disease funding passed by the House and Senate yesterday. The... Read More »

by Phyllis Mervine I started this organization more than 30 years ago to empower people with Lyme disease. Our aim: to change a medical system that ignores us, and to push for new tests and treatments to help people reclaim their lives. Three decades in, those goals are more... Read More »

By Louisa Glynne, MIT Department of Biological Engineering Despite the fact that Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States, with more than 400,000 new cases every year, there are no consistently accurate tests for Lyme. Known in the medical... Read More »

Lorraine Johnson, CEO of LymeDisease.org, was interviewed on a podcast by Robert Herriman, editor of Outbreak News Today. The pair discussed the new Lyme treatment guidelines recently published by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). Herriman started out by asking... Read More »

The Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) has issued new treatment guidelines for the tick-borne infection babesiosis. Previously, the IDSA’s recommendations for treating the illness were included in the group’s 2006 Lyme disease guidelines. Peter Krause, M.D., of the Yale... Read More »

By Tracy Peake, North Carolina State University Bartonella bacteria are increasingly recognized as an emerging infectious disease threat. A new study by North Carolina State University researchers has found additional instances of Bartonella infection in humans who exhibited... Read More »